"Some through the long Wars of the Roses faded;

Some did walk barefoot to the Holy Land;

Some show young faces with the bride's-veil

shaded;

Some touch me with the nun's all-gracious hand;

"Some in the purple with crown-jewels burning,

Some in the peasant's hodden-gray go by,

Some in forlornest prisons darkly yearning

For earth and grass, the dove's wing and the

sky.