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A STONE IN ST. PAUL'S GRAVEYARD (NEW YORK) by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY

Poet Analysis

First Line: HERE, WHERE ENORMOUS SHADOWS CREEP
Last Line: HE WAS JOHN JONES, SON OF JOHN JONES.
Subject(s): CEMETERIES; DEATH - CHILDREN; ST. PAUL'S CATHERDRAL (NEW YORK CITY); GRAVEYARDS; DEATH - BABIES;
@3 Here Lyes the Body of
Iohn Jones the Son of
Iohn Jones Who Departed
This Life December the 13
1768 Aged 4 Years & 4 Months
& 2 Days@1

HERE, where enormous shadows creep,
He casts his childish shadow too:
How small he seems, beneath the steep
Great walls; his tender days, so few,
Lovingly numbered, every one --
John Jones, John Jones's little son.

O sunlight on the Lightning's wings!
Yet though our buildings skyward climb
Our heartbreaks are but little things
In the equality of Time.
The sum of life, for all men's stones:
He was John Jones, son of John Jones.



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