Earthy Bed

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In open lands where wild winds sigh 
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Beneath the wide and open sky 
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No word, no poem, no dirge but the sound 
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Of a shovel and a man digging up the ground 
 

 
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No marble tombstone with words carved upon 
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Just earthy bed for one alone 
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No one, no one, no one for no soul 
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Just some cold flesh and bones at the bottom of a hole 
 

 
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For lack of gold, this humble plot 
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Where flowers bloom, forget-me-not 
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No stone, no cross marks her final rest 
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Just nature's cloak upon the breast 
 

 
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With tender palms and arms so sore 
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I laid her down forevermore 
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In open fields, beneath the sky 
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Where dreams and hopes forever lie 
 

 
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No money for a coffin made out of precious wood 
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The cruel mirror of her livelihood 
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Fortune, misfortune, in the end it is but the same 
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May she find peace at last, by nature's hand 
 

 
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Though tears may fall like gentle summer rain 
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And sorrow may call with silent pain 
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As above, so below 
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The universe bestows life's ebb and flow 
 

 
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The sun dips low, the shadows stretch and grow 
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Upon the land, a farmer fallowed 
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Just simple grace, in earthy sod 
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Where rests her soul in peace with God 
 

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