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By chapel bare, with walls sea-beat / The lichened urns in wilds are lost / About a carved memorial stone / That shows, decayed and coral-mossed, / A form recumbent, swords at feet, / Trophies at head, and kelp for a winding-sheet.
I invoke thy ghost, neglected fane, / Washed by the waters' long lament; / I adjure the recumbent effigy / To tell the cenotaph's intent- / Reveal why fagotted swords are at feet, / Why trophies appear and weeds are the winding-sheet.