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This is called
Graveyard by the Sea.

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The only setting, which
I think it's in the poem,

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is that I find this graveyard,
or the speaker of the poem

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finds a graveyard by
the sea somewhere.

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And in one gravestone
is a cross.

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But the cross is made out
of mirror, shards of mirror.

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And there's also
other pieces of mirror

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embedded in the tombstone.

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Graveyard by the Sea.

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I wonder if they
sleep better here,

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so close to the elemental
pentameter of the sea which

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comes in incessantly.

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Just a few square acres
of sand, studded mainly

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with thick posts, as
if the coffins beneath

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were boats tied fast to
prevent further drift.

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I have stumbled around one
pre-dawn, just a dog following

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the footprints of
another dog with me,

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and stop before one
particular grave,

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a cross inlaid with large
splinters of mirror.

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Whoever lies here is
distinguished, certainly,

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but I wonder, why mirrors?

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For signaling?

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Who?

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No.

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They're embedded in
the stone, and so can't

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be flipped to reflect
the sun or moonlight.

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Is the sleeper here
unusually vain, and the glass

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set for those times
of dark ascension

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to smooth the death gown,
to apply a little lipstick

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to the white worms of the lips?

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[LAUGHTER]

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No, again.

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I think they're for me.

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And for the ones who come like
me at this hour in this half

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light, the ones who come half
drunk, half wild, and wholly in

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fear.

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So we may gaze into the
ghosts of our own faces,

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and be touched by this
chill of all chills,

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and then go home alive to
sleep the sleep of the awake.