Autumn Burial + 

The moon shone full that night, + 

And fill’d with misty light + 

The solemn clouds hung white + 

Above her pall; + 

Waiting the golden dawn + 

The silent woods stood wan, + 

While through their aisles mov’d on + 

Her funeral. + 

Palely their torches flare, + 

While rob’d in white they bear + 

Her corpse that was most fair + 

Of them that die, + 

By sleeping forests tall + 

And woods funereal + 

Through the decaying fall + 

Beneath the sky. + 

The orbed moon looks down + 

Upon her golden crown, + 

From out the forest brown + 

The wood-things stare; + 

The holy stars behold + 

Her woven hair of gold, + 

And slumbering and cold + 

Her bosom bare. + 

The moon shines full o’erhead, + 

And they with bowed head + 

About her body dead + 

In silence stand; + 

There where no foot hath trod + 

They bury her with sod + 

Alone with only God + 

In all the land. + 

Tall forests stand around + 

About her grassy mound + 

And over all the ground + 

Lie shadows hoar. + 

She ’neath the passing moon + 

Sees not the shadows strewn + 

Sunk in her golden swoon + 

Forevermore. + 