It caught the reflex of the sunset sky

On golden-lichened roof and gray-green stone.

Through snow and shower and sunshine it had stood

In the thronged graveyard's infinite solitude,

While many a year had come, and flowered, and gone.

From the marsh-meadow to the field of graves

But just a step, across a lichened wall.

Thick o'er the happy dead the marsh grass waves,

And cloudy wreaths of marsh mist gather and fall,