The Levelled Churchyard by Thomas Hardy Lyrics

"O passenger, pray list and catch
        Our sighs and piteous groans,
Half stifled in this jumbled patch
        Of wrenched memorial stones!

"We late-lamented, resting here,
        Are mixed to human jam,
And each to each exclaims in fear,
        'I know not which I am!'

"The wicked people have annexed
        The verses on the good;
A roaring drunkard sports the text
        Teetotal Tommy should!

"Where we are huddled none can trace,
        And if our names remain,
They pave some path or p-ing place
        Where we have never lain!

"There's not a modest maiden elf
        But dreads the final Trumpet,
Lest half of her should rise herself,
        And half some local strumpet!
"From restorations of Thy fane,
        From smoothings of Thy sward,
From zealous Churchmen's pick and plane
        Deliver us O Lord! Amen!"

1882.