For The Window In St. Margaret-s

Oliver Wendell Holmes

IN MEMORY OF A SON OF ARCHDEACON FARRAR

AFAR he sleeps whose name is graven here,
Where loving hearts his early doom deplore;
Youth, promise, virtue, all that made him dear
Heaven lent, earth borrowed, sorrowing to restore.

(C) Oliver Wendell Holmes
03/11/2017

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