The Earth says to the Earth, all shall be ours.
Epitaph, 17th Century.
An inscription on a tomb in Melrose Abbey, but said to be a version of lines by a Fourteenth Century poet, William Billing.
She never found fault with you, never implied
Your wrong by her right; and yet men at her side
Grew nobler, girls purer....
None knelt at her feet confessed lovers in thrall;
They knelt more to God than they used—that was all.
E. B. Browning (My Kate).