VOICES FROM GOD’S ACRE
I like that ancient Saxon phrase with calls
The burial-ground God’s Acre. Longfellow.
The following lines are from “A Dirge,” by Rev. George Croly, an English clergyman and voluminous writer:
Earth to earth and dust to dust!
Here the evil and the just,
Here the youthful and the old,
Here the fearful and the bold,
Here the matron and the maid
In one silent bed are laid;