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FRAGMENTS. Second Series. 5 Literary Gazette, 10th January, 1824, Pages 27-28

STANZAS. Is it not so? It is a green and sunny place That silent tomb, And over it, with summer grace, The wild flowers bloom;

And shadily that willow-tree Floats on the air; But lift up the smooth sod, and see Its dark things bare:

A blackening corpse, a rank, cold smell, Discoloured bones; And slimy earthworms are what dwell In the damp stones.

And look thus on the human face— Is it not fair? Yet look within the heart, and trace Such foulness there.