Still more and more we cherish.

It looks beyond the clouds of time,

And through death’s shadowy portal,

Made by adversity sublime,

By faith and hope immortal.

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THE GRAVE OF LOVE.

By Thomas Love Peacock (1785–1866).

I dug, beneath the cypress shade,

What well might seem an elfin’s grave;