Presentiment + 

With saintly grace and reverent tread, + 

She walked among the graves with me; + 

Her every foot-fall seemed to be + 

A benediction on the dead. + 

The guardian spirit of the place + 

She seemed, and I some ghost forlorn + 

Surprised in the untimely morn + 

She made with her resplendent face. + 

Moved by some waywardness of will, + 

Three paces from the path apart + 

She stepped and stood⁠—my prescient heart + 

Was stricken with a passing chill. + 

The folk-lore of the years agone + 

Remembering, I smiled and thought: + 

“Who shudders suddenly at naught, + 

His grave is being trod upon.” + 

But now I know that it was more + 

Than idle fancy. O, my sweet, + 

I did not think such little feet + 

Could make a buried heart so sore! + 