For the sake of the child she has left behind?

To mock them (they say) makes the dead ones grieve,

Let's see if I cannot her work relieve,

Or she no end to her toil may find."

So spake he, when something, with movement slow,

Stirs in the deep-dug grave below,

And in its trailing shroud comes out;

And the little garments that infants have

It hangs and stretches on gate and grave,

On rail and trellis, the yard about.