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In A Breton Cemetery

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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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