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Ye who have come o'er the sea / to behold this grey minster of lands, / Whose floor is the tomb of time past, / and whose walls by the toil of dead hands / Show pictures amidst of the ruin / of deeds that have overpast death, / Stay by this tomb in a tomb / to ask of who lieth beneath.
Ah! the world changeth too soon, / that ye stand there with unbated breath, / As I name him that Gunnar of old, / who erst in the haymaking tide / Felt all the land fragrant and fresh, / as amidst of the edges he died.