Of green wreaths and floral tributes,

Kindly tributes of affection.

And the ancient trodden graveyard,

Of the city’s early ages,

Lingers on with sunken tomb-stones,

Lingers on with gray inscriptions,

Lingers yet with moss and ivy,

Winding close their clinging tendrils,

Lingers now a small enclosure,

In the suburbs of Lancaster.