Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Here you will find the Poem Elegy in a Country Churchyard of poet Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Elegy in a Country Churchyard

The men that worked for England 
They have their graves at home: 
And bees and birds of England 
About the cross can roam. 

But they that fought for England, 
Following a falling star, 
Alas, alas for England 
They have their graves afar. 

And they that rule in England, 
In stately conclave met, 
Alas, alas for England, 
They have no graves as yet.