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Idly one day in a foreign town	A
In a churchyard's shade I sat me down	A
By the side of a little cross of stone	B
On which was a woman's name alone	B
A cypress whispered in my ear	C
That all was now neglected here	C
Emily's Grave was all I read	D
Nothing more on the cross was said	D
Neither a name nor Bible verse	E
Nor date relieved the inscription terse	E
Emily's Grave	F
So strange this seemed my blood turned cold	G
At thought of a tragedy never told	G
The flowers the grass and the humming bees	H
Were blithe and gay in the sun and breeze	H
Yet no kind hand had ever strewn	I
Sweet flowers where only weeds had grown	B
And nothing brightened the lonely mound	J
Whose edge was lost in the trodden ground	J
At length to the churchyard gate I went	K
And asked of a woman old and bent	K
Who was the girl whose cross of stone	B
Bears nothing save these words alone	B
'Emily's Grave'	F
Alas she answered many a year	L
Hath passed since I beheld her bier	C
She was young and came from a humble nest	M
And credulous too like all the rest	M
So a stranger met her here one day	N
And caught her in his net straightway	O
He said he was rich and she should shine	P
Like a queen in his castle by the Rhine	P
And winning her love he took her hence	Q
To where she found it was all pretence	Q
He had basely lied to the simple maid	R
And wearying soon of a girl betrayed	R
Abandoned her then home once more	S
She came to sink at her mother's door	S
Of shame and grief she was quickly dead	D
For here she could no more lift her head	D
And her mother wishing to efface	Q
All memory of her child's disgrace	Q
Reared that small cross to which she gave	F
The title only 'Emily's Grave'	F
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From the German	T

John L. Stoddard

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