On That Day

On that day I shall put roses on roses, and cover your grave With multitude of white roses: and since you were brave One bright red ray.

So people, passing under The ash-trees of the valley-road, will raise Their eyes and look at the grave on the hill, in wonder, Wondering mount, and put the flowers asunder

To see whose praise Is blazoned here so white and so bloodily red. Then they will say: "'Tis long since she is dead, Who has remembered her after many days?"

And standing there They will consider how you went your ways Unnoticed among them, a still queen lost in the maze Of this earthly affair.

A queen, they'll say, Has slept unnoticed on a forgotten hill. Sleeps on unknown, unnoticed there, until Dawns my insurgent day.