Definition of Grave

  Beside a lonely grave I stood --
      With brambles 'twas encumbered;
  The winds were moaning in the wood,
      Unheard by him who slumbered,

  A rustic standing near, I said:
      'He cannot hear it blowing!'
  ''Course not,' said he:  'the feller's dead --
      He can't hear nowt [sic] that's going.'

  'Too true,' I said; 'alas, too true --
      No sound his sense can quicken!'
  'Well, mister, wot is that to you? --
      The deadster ain't a-kickin'.'

  I knelt and prayed:  'O Father, smile
      On him, and mercy show him!'
  That countryman looked on the while,
      And said:  'Ye didn't know him.'

Pobeter Dunko