Now shall the feet of pensive wanderers turn,

With heedless steps from thy more classic urn;

But sadly tread the village grave-yard round,

’Midst tombs defac’d, and many a mouldering mound,

And pause and ponder where, embower’d in green,

Thy marble crowns the fair surrounding scene⁠—

Where gentle gales their flowery fragrance strew,

And morn and eve thy lowly turf bedew⁠—

Where the fresh sward and trembling tree-leaves wave,

While night-winds sing their dirges round thy grave⁠—