Digging + 

What matter makes my spade for tears or mirth, + 

Letting down two clay pipes into the earth? + 

The one I smoked, the other a soldier + 

Of Blenheim, Ramillies, and Malplaquet + 

Perhaps. The dead man’s immortality + 

Lies represented lightly with my own, + 

A yard or two nearer the living air + 

Than bones of ancients who, amazed to see + 

Almighty God erect the mastodon, + 

Once laughed, or wept, in this same light of day. + 