No room for the dead - W.J. Anderson

      Yes, the earth is bright
      And hearts are light;
      And none would know
      That years ago
      A grave was made
      And a loved one laid
      Away from the sorrowing sight.
      For flowers have grown
      Where tears were sown,
      And memories die
      As the years go by,
      Till the living have said,
      "No room for the dead
      In this beautiful world of our own;
No room for the stars in a mid-day sky,
No room for the grass with the garden flowers;
No room for the tears in a joyful eye,
No room for the dead in this world of ours."

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W.J. Anderson (Emma Frances Baker) (1842 - 1868) Australia
Source: Australian poets, 1788-1888, selected by Douglas Brooke Wheelton Sladen, Cassell publishing company, 1890