Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). The New Poetry: An Anthology. 1917.
Service of All the Dead
By D. H. Lawrence
B
All in their scarlet capes and surplices
Of linen, go the chaunting choristers,
The priests in gold and black, the villagers.
The round dark heads of men crowd silently;
And black-scarfed faces of women-folk wistfully
Watch at the banner of death, and the mystery.
With sunken head and forgotten, folded hand;
And at the foot of a grave a mother kneels
With pale shut face, nor neither hears nor feels
Between the avenue of cypresses,
The silence of the many villagers,
The candle-flames beside the surplices.