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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Scotland: Vols. VI–VIII. 1876–79.

Melrose Abbey

Inscription on a Gravestone in the Churchyard of Melrose Abbey

By Anonymous

THE EARTH goeth on the earth,

Glistering like gold;

The earth goeth to the earth,

Sooner than it wold;

The earth builds on the earth

Castles and towers;

The earth says to the earth,

All shall be ours.