WHAT THE SEXTON SAID
Yourdust will be upon the windWithin some certain years,Though you be sealed in lead to-dayAmid the country’s tears.When this idyllic churchyardBecomes the heart of town,The place to build garage or inn,They’ll throw your tombstone down.Your name so dim, so long outworn,Your bones so near to earth,Your sturdy kindred dead and gone,How should men know your worth?So read upon the runic moonMan’s epitaph, deep-writ.It says the world is one great grave.For names it cares no whit.It tells the folk to live in peace,And still, in peace, to die.At least, so speaks the moon to me,The tombstone of the sky.
Yourdust will be upon the windWithin some certain years,Though you be sealed in lead to-dayAmid the country’s tears.When this idyllic churchyardBecomes the heart of town,The place to build garage or inn,They’ll throw your tombstone down.Your name so dim, so long outworn,Your bones so near to earth,Your sturdy kindred dead and gone,How should men know your worth?So read upon the runic moonMan’s epitaph, deep-writ.It says the world is one great grave.For names it cares no whit.It tells the folk to live in peace,And still, in peace, to die.At least, so speaks the moon to me,The tombstone of the sky.
Yourdust will be upon the windWithin some certain years,Though you be sealed in lead to-dayAmid the country’s tears.
Yourdust will be upon the wind
Within some certain years,
Though you be sealed in lead to-day
Amid the country’s tears.
When this idyllic churchyardBecomes the heart of town,The place to build garage or inn,They’ll throw your tombstone down.
When this idyllic churchyard
Becomes the heart of town,
The place to build garage or inn,
They’ll throw your tombstone down.
Your name so dim, so long outworn,Your bones so near to earth,Your sturdy kindred dead and gone,How should men know your worth?
Your name so dim, so long outworn,
Your bones so near to earth,
Your sturdy kindred dead and gone,
How should men know your worth?
So read upon the runic moonMan’s epitaph, deep-writ.It says the world is one great grave.For names it cares no whit.
So read upon the runic moon
Man’s epitaph, deep-writ.
It says the world is one great grave.
For names it cares no whit.
It tells the folk to live in peace,And still, in peace, to die.At least, so speaks the moon to me,The tombstone of the sky.
It tells the folk to live in peace,
And still, in peace, to die.
At least, so speaks the moon to me,
The tombstone of the sky.