The Grave-Digger

A DIGGER he digs in the dark
In the naked remains of a wood,
For his friend that lies stiff and stark,
On his head hard blood for a hood :

The digging is painful and slow,
Yet the digger he sweats like a slave--
But he didn't know what I now know ;
The digger he dug his own grave !

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