Sweet is the tomb—the all-forgetting tomb—

The dreamless couch round which no phantoms glide,

To harrow up the soul, or read a doom,

Of yore on their dread Sabbath prophesied.

Calm are its slumbers—never more shall pride,

Hatred or malice, wound the sleeping clay;

Wrong not the dead—they should be deified—

They lived and suffered, and have passed away;

Here be all feuds forgot—ye, too, shall have your day.

Your day of trouble, when the cup of Grief,