"Small risk," said I,

"Of such illusion do we here incur;

Temptation here is none to exceed the truth;

No evidence appears that they who rest

Within this ground, were covetous of praise,

Or of remembrance even, deserved or not.

Green is the Church-yard, beautiful and green,

Ridge rising gently by the side of ridge,

A heaving surface, almost wholly free

From interruption of sepulchral stones,