The Burial-place: A Fragment Poem Rhyme Scheme

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Erewhile on England's pleasant shores our sires	A
Left not their churchyards unadorned with shades	B
Or blossoms and indulgent to the strong	C
And natural dread of man's last home the grave	D
Its frost and silence they disposed around	E
To soothe the melancholy spirit that dwelt	F
Too sadly on life's close the forms and hues	G
Of vegetable beauty There the yew	H
Green even amid the snows of winter told	I
Of immortality and gracefully	J
The willow a perpetual mourner drooped	K
And there the gadding woodbine crept about	L
And there the ancient ivy From the spot	M
Where the sweet maiden in her blossoming years	N
Cut off was laid with streaming eyes and hands	O
That trembled as they placed her there the rose	P
Sprung modest on bowed stalk and better spoke	Q
Her graces than the proudest monument	R
There children set about their playmate's grave	D
The pansy On the infant's little bed	S
Wet at its planting with maternal tears	T
Emblem of early sweetness early death	U
Nestled the lowly primrose Childless dames	V
And maids that would not raise the reddened eye	W
Orphans from whose young lids the light of joy	X
Fled early silent lovers who had given	Y
All that they lived for to the arms of earth	Z
Came often o'er the recent graves to strew	H
Their offerings rue and rosemary and flowers	A2
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The pilgrim bands who passed the sea to keep	B2
Their Sabbaths in the eye of God alone	C2
In his wide temple of the wilderness	D2
Brought not these simple customs of the heart	E2
With them It might be while they laid their dead	S
By the vast solemn skirts of the old groves	F2
And the fresh virgin soil poured forth strange flowers	A2
About their graves and the familiar shades	B
Of their own native isle and wonted blooms	G2
And herbs were wanting which the pious hand	H2
Might plant or scatter there these gentle rites	I2
Passed out of use Now they are scarcely known	C2
And rarely in our borders may you meet	J2
The tall larch sighing in the burying place	K2
Or willow trailing low its boughs to hide	L2
The gleaming marble Naked rows of graves	M2
And melancholy ranks of monuments	N2
Are seen instead where the coarse grass between	O2
Shoots up its dull green spikes and in the wind	P2
Hisses and the neglected bramble nigh	W
Offers its berries to the schoolboy's hand	H2
In vain they grow too near the dead Yet here	Q2
Nature rebuking the neglect of man	R2
Plants often by the ancient mossy stone	C2
The brier rose and upon the broken turf	S2
That clothes the fresher grave the strawberry vine	T2
Sprinkles its swell with blossoms and lays forth	U2
Her ruddy pouting fruit	V2

William Cullen Bryant

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