What's hallowed ground? Has earth a clod

Its Maker meant not should be trod

By man, the image of his God,

Erect and free,

Unscourged by superstition's rod

To bow the knee?

What hallows ground where heroes sleep?

'Tis not the sculptured piles you heap,

In dews that Heavens far distant weep,

Their turf may bloom,