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Rh unknown warrior forever on guard at the entrance to England's old Abbey.

SOLDIER, REST

BY SIR WALTER SCOTT

, rest! thy warfare o'er,

Sleep the sleep that knows not breaking;

Dream of battled fields no more,

Days of danger, nights of waking.

In our isle's enchanted hall,

Hands unseen thy couch are strewing,

Fairy strains of music fall,

Every sense in slumber dewing.

Soldier, rest! thy warfare o'er,

Dream of fighting fields no more:

Sleep the sleep that knows not breaking,

Morn of toil, nor night of waking.

No rude sounds shall reach thine ear,

Armor's clang, or war-steed champing,

Trump nor pibroch summon here

Mustering clan, or squadron tramping.

Yet the lark's shrill fife may come

At the daybreak from the fallow,

And the bittern sound his drum,

Booming from the sedgy shallow.