Garden-Spot

 God's acre was her garden-spot, she said;
She sat there often, of the Summer days,
Little and slim and sweet, among the dead,
Her hair a fable in the leveled rays.


She turned the fading wreath, the rusted cross,
And knelt to coax about the wiry stem.

I see her gentle fingers on the moss
Now it is anguish to remember them.


And once I saw her weeping, when she rose
And walked a way and turned to look around-
The quick and envious tears of one that knows
She shall not lie in consecrated ground.

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