I like that ancient Saxon phrase, which calls The burial-ground God’s-Acre!…

I like that ancient Saxon phrase, which calls
The burial-ground God’s-Acre! It is just;
It consecrates each grave within its walls,
And breathes a benison o’er the sleeping dust.

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God’s-Acre , st. 1 (1842)

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