How beautiful thine endless rest!

The quiet conscience in thy breast,

Thy hidden place of peace, where pass

The ghost-like stirrings of the grass;

The long immunity from strife,

The tumult, love; the trouble, life;

The blossom at thy feet, to be

A thousand summers, dust like thee;

The winding-sheet, that white as worth,

Shuts all thy failings in the earth.