IV

They told her: "Go alone,

With never a word,

To the burial-plot's unknown

Grave with the oldest stone,

When the clock on twelve is heard.

V

"Three times around it pass,

With never a sound;

Each time a wisp of grass

And myrtle pluck; then pass

Out of the ghostly ground.

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