“In many a village churchyard’s simple grave,

Where all unmarked the cypress branches wave;

In many a vault where death could only claim

The brief inscription of a woman’s name;

Of different ranks and different degrees,

From daily labour to a life of ease,

(From the rich wife who through the weary day

Wept in her jewels, grief’s unceasing prey,

To the poor soul who trudged o’er marsh and moor;

And with her baby begged from door to door,)