Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 January 1912 — CURRENT VERSE [ARTICLE]

CURRENT VERSE

Bea Burial. *— Lay him not in the earth with whom (ha earth found. Where tree-roots blindly pushing in tha ground Would clasp his coffin In their moving girth; Or where the soil. In labor at the birth Of some fierce city, would molest tha mound Of his low tenement, or muffled sound Of tunneling mole trouble the dreamlesa dearth Of sleep eternal. Rather lay him deep fn that low grave undigged of any spade, —Where never sable mourner comes to weep And Vend with plods hand the flowers that fade,— The m any-peopled grave down In the free Untrodden cemeteries of the sea. —Martin D. Armstrong, In the Atlantic.