“First, the Mass for the Dead they chaunted. Then three times laid upon his head A shovelful of church-yard clay, Saying to him, as he stood undaunted, ‘This is a sign that thou art dead, So in thy heart be penitent!’ And forth from the chapel door he went Into disgrace and banishment, Clothed in a cloak of hodden gray, And bearing a wallet, and a bell, Whose sound should be a perpetual knell To keep all travelers away.”
THE SPIRE OF STRASBURG CATHEDRAL Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
