The Cat in the Treble Clef by Louis de Bernières

Author:Louis de Bernières
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Random House

IN HAMBLEDON CHURCHYARD, THE GRAVE OF LUCY PARKER

I saw your stone and stood appalled,

Here in the Surrey Hills,

With heaven so close, it’s but a pace

From where I stand, one pace

From where you lie, my beauty, who,

When I was young, was far too young

To yearn for.

You barely lived out half a life,

Yet here you lie, Lucy, who was fifteen once,

And golden, lively, joyful, lovely,

Henceforth stilled and dumb.

This grave is eloquent with loss, a grief

That seeps up through the soil

And soaks the skin like dew.

Farewell to you,

So pristine once, so near to heaven,

Oblivious, in these Surrey Hills,

To those like me, who linger at this stone.

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