<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=365936" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Funeral</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The village lay in silence<br>As I lounged there, on the hill, <br>The grass so soft and evergreen, <br>The flowers, petalled still, <br>The morning sun shone brightly<br>As I lay, without a care, <br>And watched the village come awake, <br>I watched the village stir.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The baker with his basket<br>Dropping off each loaf of bread, <br>The milkman chinking bottles<br>As the wives stirred from their bed, <br>The countrymen at breakfast<br>Peering out to greet the day, <br>The cock had crowed just once that morn, <br>The fox had had its way.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then later on that morning<br>I could hear the church bell toll, <br>And the mourners, dressed in black<br>Filed out, the widow in her shawl, <br>Her walk seemed so familiar, <br>I guessed it was a friend, <br>And pondered on this life of ours, <br>How soon it seemed to end.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The bearers soon appeared, heads bowed, <br>The coffin seemed so slight, <br>To carry all those hopes and dreams<br>Toward that final night, <br>They led the whole procession<br>At a stately, regal pace, <br>Toward the path up on the hill<br>Where God would lend him grace.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">They weaved and turned along the track<br>Where lay the cemetery, <br>I stood as they approached, I saw<br>They'd have to pass by me, <br>But then the vicar halted as<br>He came into my view, <br>I asked: ‘Who is the fallen one? '<br>He said: ‘We come for you! '</div><div style="margin:10px 0">12 August,2012</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=David+Lewis+Paget">David Lewis Paget</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=365936" data-title="The Funeral de David Lewis Paget" data-description="The village lay in silence As I lounged there, on the hill, The grass so soft and evergreen, The flowers, petalled still, The morning sun shone brightly As I lay, without a care, And watched the village come awake, I watched the village stir...."></div> </div> </div>

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