Of weeping cherubs on the stone shall rise;

Tears, true as those which, ere she found her grave,

The noble Lady to our sorrows gave.”

Down by the church-way walk, and where the brook

Winds round the chancel like a shepherd’s crook;

In that small house, with those green pales before,

Where jasmine trails on either side the door;

Where those dark shrubs, that now grow wild at will,

Were clipped in form and tantalised with skill;

Where cockles blanch’d and pebbles neatly spread,