THEY are chanting now the service of All the Dead
And the village folk outside in the burying ground
Listen—except those who strive with their dead,
Reaching out in anguish1, yet unable quite to
touch them:
Those villagers isolated2 at the grave
Where the candles burn in the daylight, and the
painted wreaths
Are propped3 on end, there, where the mystery
starts.
The naked candles burn on every grave.
On your grave, in England, the weeds grow.
But I am your naked candle burning,
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