elegy on a country churchyard – Meaghan Walsh Gerard

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31 Days of Halloween – Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard

October 13, 2013

The curfew tolls the knell of parting day,
The lowing herd wind slowly o’er the lea,
The plowman homeward plods his weary way,
And leaves the world to darkness and to me.