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IN GOD'S ACRE by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON

First Line: MARMOREAL HANDS ACROSS UNBREATHING BREASTS
Last Line: OF SOULS WHO REST ON THE ALMIGHTY ARM!
Subject(s): GOD; PEACE; SLEEP; SOUL; TEARS;

MARMOREAL hands across unbreathing breasts:
How dreamfully the sleepers seem to lie.
Like that strange, hallowed trance that is the west's
When sundown reaves all motion from the sky.
@3Peace,@1 the great word; peace from remembered days
Of tumult quieted to perfect calm;
How wiped away the salt untranquil tears
Of souls who rest on the Almighty arm!



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