Tuesday, December 31, 2002
God's-Acre Comments
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I like that ancient Saxon phrase, which calls
The burial-ground God's-Acre! It is just;
It consecrates each grave within its walls,
And breathes a benison o'er the sleeping dust.
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Walterrean Salley
25 November 2016
(God's-Acre by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.) **A sacred tribute in kind to the deceased, their burial grounds, and their bright hope.
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7/30/2025 5:41:56 PM # 1.0.0
Lovely poem, but one spelling mistake = ploughahare, ought to be ploughshare