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After the Burial Yes, faith is a goodly anchor; When skies are sweet as a psalm, At the bows it lolls so stalwart, In its bluff, broad-shouldered calm. And when over breakers to leeward The tattered surges are hurled, It may keep our head to the tempest,... Poet: James Russell Lowell	The Burial of the Dane Blue gulf all around us, Blue sky overhead— Muster all on the quarter, We must bury the dead! It is but a Danish sailor, Rugged of front and form; A common son of the forecastle, Grizzled with sun and storm. His name,... Poet: Henry Howard Brownell	Burial of Moses “And he buried him in a valley in the land of Moab, over against Beth-peor: but no man knoweth of his sepulchre unto this day.”—DEUTERONOMY xxxiv. 6. BY Nebo’s lonely mountain, On this side Jordan’s wave, In a vale in the land of Moab, There lies a lonely grave... Poet: Cecil Frances Alexander	The Burial of Robert Browning UPON St. Michael’s Isle They laid him for awhile That he might feel the Ocean’s full embrace, And wedded be To that wide sea— The subject and the passion of his race. As Thetis, from some lovely... Poet: Michael Field
Burial of Sir John Moore [Corunna, Spain, January 16, 1809] NOT a drum was heard, not a funeral note, As his corse to the rampart we hurried; Not a soldier discharged his farewell shot O’er the grave where our hero we buried. We buried him darkly, at dead of night, ... Poet: Charles Wolfe	The Drummer-Boy’s Burial All day long the storm of battle through the startled valley swept; All night long the stars in heaven o’er the slain sad vigils kept. O, the ghastly upturned faces gleaming whitely through the night! O, the heaps of mangled corses in that dim sepulchral light! ... Poet: Anonymous	Burial of a Friend AS, bowed by sudden storms, the rose Sinks on the garden's breast, Down to the grave our brother goes, In silence there to rest. No more with us his tuneful voice The hymn of... Poet:	Burial of Barber Poet: