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What hast thou seen in the olden time	A
Dark ruin lone and gray	B
Full many a race from thy native clime	A
And the bright earth pass away	B
The organ has pealed in these roofless aisles	C
And priests have knelt to pray	B
At the altar where now the daisy smiles	C
O'er their silent beds of clay	B
	-
I've seen the strong man a wailing child	D
By his mother offered here	E
I've seen him a warrior fierce and wild	D
I've seen him on his bier	E
His warlike harness beside him laid	F
In the silent earth to rust	G
His plumed helm and trusty blade	F
To moulder into dust	G
	-
I've seen the stern reformer scorn	H
The things once deemed divine	I
And the bigot's zeal with gems adorn	H
The altar's sacred shrine	I
I've seen the silken banners wave	J
Where now the ivy clings	K
And the sculptured stone adorn the grave	J
Of mitred priests and kings	K
	-
I've seen the youth in his tameless glee	L
And the hoary locks of age	M
Together bend the pious knee	L
To read the sacred page	M
I've seen the maid with her sunny brow	N
To the silent dust go down	O
The soil bound slave forget his woe	P
The king resign his crown	O
	-
Ages have fled and I have seen	Q
The young the fair the gay	B
Forgot as if they ne'er had been	R
Though worshipped in their day	B
And school boys here their revels keep	S
And spring from grave to grave	J
Unconscious that beneath them sleep	S
The noble and the brave	J
	-
Here thousands find a resting place	T
Who bent before this shrine	I
Their dust is here their name and race	T
Oblivion now are thine	I
The prince the peer the peasant sleeps	U
Alike beneath the sod	V
Time o'er their dust short record keeps	U
Forgotten save by God	V
	-
I've seen the face of nature change	W
And where the wild waves beat	X
The eye delightedly might range	W
O'er many a goodly seat	X
But hill and dale and forest fair	Y
Are whelmed beneath the tide	Z
They slumber here who could declare	Y
Who owned those manors wide	Z
	-
All thou hast felt these sleepers knew	A2
For human hearts are still	B2
In every age to nature true	A2
And swayed by good or ill	B2
By passion ruled and born to woe	P
Unceasing tears they shed	C2
But thou must sleep like them to know	P
The secrets of the dead	C2

Susanna Moodie

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