"The Graveyard"

While standing here among the tombs,
a mortal soul licks mortal wounds,
and sees before another's fate
"November 10, 1908"

Beyond this barren shrine there loom
glad mourners in their finest gloom.
Another soul has met his fate.
Another tomb. Another date.

A noble end for deaths' new groom,
sad flowers in their finest bloom
'round mourners come to contemplate,
Another's end. Another's fate.

As somber thoughts embrace these tombs,
and feed on grief and death and doom.
my mortal soul does mourn its fate
Another tomb. Another date.

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