Bell
&
Book
In deepest silence
the mourners walk
as the rain does fall
they do not talk
but following on behind
one after another
on that cemetery path
they follow their brother
As within
the casket
he does lay
in
slumber
carried
from this
life away
on the shoulders
of the bearers
who lay him down
six foot deep
within the
burial ground
And the
preacher man
with his Bell
and Book
the toll of the Bell
is the toll that broke
that silence of this
grim dark day
Reciting from the Bible
as their brother does lay
beneath the soil
buried underground
as the call of the raven
echoes all around
With earnest prayers
they give him up
The ringing of the Bell
and reading
from the Book
pierces their minds
their breath is cold
As the soil engulfs
their brother's soul...
Copyright
{c}2009
Wayne Leon Learmond
Bell & Book
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