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1867–1900

IN A BRETON CEMETERY

Ernest Christopher Dowson

They sleep well here, These fisher-folk who passed their anxious days In fierce Atlantic ways; And found not there,

Beneath the long curled wave, So quiet a grave. And they sleep well These peasant-folk, who told their lives away,

From day to market-day, As one should tell, With patient industry, Some sad old rosary.

And now night falls, Me, tempest-tost, and driven from pillar to post, A poor worn ghost, This quiet pasture calls;

And dear dead people with pale hands Beckon me to their lands.

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