The dust of pagans turned to holy ground

Beneath your humble tread.

Here we descend at drooping dusk the side

Of the stony down beneath the planted ring

Of beeches where you showed with pastoral pride

The folded lambs in spring;

Here pull at eve the self-same bell that hastened

Your rough-shod feet behind the hollow door—

Yet never see you stand, the chain unfastened,

Your lantern on the floor.