I

I shall rot here, with those whom in their day You never knew, And alien ones who, ere they chilled to clay, Met not my view, Will in your distant grave-place ever neighbour you.

II

No shade of pinnacle or tree or tower, While earth endures, Will fall on my mound and within the hour Steal on to yours;

One robin never haunt our two green covertures.

III

Some organ may resound on Sunday noons By where you lie, Some other thrill the panes with other tunes Where moulder I;

No selfsame chords compose our common lullaby.

IV

The simply-cut memorial at my head Perhaps may take A Gothic form, and that above your bed Be Greek in make;

No linking symbol show thereon for our tale's sake.

V

And in the monotonous moils of strained, hard-run Humanity, The eternal tie which binds us twain in one No eye will see Stretching across the miles that sever you from me.