BETA

Illustration depicts various scenes that intersect with one another. Moving clockwise, the top-left corner shows an urban street at eye level; there is a bird and a butterfly above the street. There are more butterflies in the top-right corner. The hand-drawn title is placed under this section, and a butterfly rests on the “R” and the “O.” The centre-right section shows a shoreline along a large body of water. The bottom-right corner shows a cemetery with many tombstones and large trees. The centre-left section shows birds mid-flight; the birds get larger as they get closer to the bottom of the page. The poem is placed in a double-ruled border in the centre of the illustration. The poem is a separate graphic unit from the illustration; however, parts of the illustration extend within the border, separating the poem between stanzas. Full-page illustration contained within a single-ruled border.
Decorated initial letter “T” that is part of the first word of the poem, “THE”. The lower part of the “T” curves, and vines explode from the tip. The letter is contained within a single-ruled border that connects to the border that contains the rest of the poem. 1/64 page.

The London Necropolis Woking

The swallows and white butterflies1
Fly low down Guildford Street ;2
The wandering harpers at the doors3
Make music sounding sweet ;4
The golden sun of August shines5
Above the yellow wheat.6
The purple levels of the heath7
Stretch wide to the unknown,8
The delicate sundew droops between9
In islets each alone ;10
The sweetness of the silent air11
From fairyland is blown.12
The garden of the dead lies smooth,13
In vistas long and green ;14
The fir-trees sweep the sunny turf,15
With the low graves between ;16
Lawn after lawn runs opening out,17
And still no end is seen.18
A cross that marks a grave and is surrounded by flowers and various plants, some of which are in pots. “JESUS” is written on the cross. The cross is in the top-left corner of the page, and trees, bees, flowers, and gardening shovels are scattered throughout the rest of the page. The poem is placed in a double-ruled border in the centre of the illustration. The poem is a separate graphic unit from the illustration. Full-page illustration contained within a single-ruled border.
They lie around their Calvary,19
All sleeping in the sun,20
The faithful, the emancipate,21
Whose sabbath has begun,22
Far from the dark and narrow ways23
In which their rest was won.24
The thyme lies lowly at their feet,25
In measureless perfume.26
The bees are humming all around27
Amid the heather bloom.28
The blue-winged moths hang motionless29
Upon the quiet tomb.30
A cemetery filled with many tombstones and large trees. Flowers from the full-page illustration on the same page extend into this illustration. Illustration is placed on top of the border that contains the poem, separating the poem between stanzas. 1/4 page contained within a double-ruled border.
Do they remember the long years31
Of want and care’s increase ?32
The noisy days, the crowded nights,33
The toil that did not cease ?34
Did there come to them through the din35
The vision of this peace ?36
The simple, and the penitent,37
The broken down, the young,38
Together in their pilgrimage39
Have they not prayed and sung ?40
They gather here once more at last,41
To rest their own among.42
Illustration depicts various scenes that intersect with one another. Moving clockwise, the top of the illustration shows an urban cityscape; some of the buildings are factories that are emitting smoke. In front of the buildings is a large body of water with various boats, some of which are docked. The bottom-right corner contains tombstones and large trees. The bottom-left corner contains butterflies. The poem is placed within a double-ruled border in the centre of the illustration. The poem is a separate graphic unit from the illustration. Full-page illustration contained within a single-ruled rectangular border.
Oh, well for them that they have here43
A resting-place so sweet ;44
A waft of rose and rosemary45
Steals through the sultry street ;46
One sleeps, one watches—both of them47
In this last home shall meet.48
The lambs are born upon the hills,49
Amid the winter snow,50
The babes are born in London streets,51
Where fire and lights burn low ;52
They come with crying and with tears,53
But they are glad to go.54
A herd of sheep in an open field. Illustration is placed on top of the border that contains the poem, separating the poem between stanzas. 1/4 page contained within a double-ruled rectangular border with rounded corners.
They have a happy playing place,55
Where they may laugh and run ;56
Their angels hold them by the hand,57
Soft singing every one ;58
They dance upon a sward like this,59
Beneath a summer sun.60
Eastward God keeps a garden,61
The wingèd souls fly there ;62
There is no weight nor weariness63
Through all the limpid air.64
They have forgotten like a dream65
This load of flesh we bear.66
A shoreline along a large body of water. The shoreline is placed at the bottom of the page, so that the sky extends up across the majority of the page. A single butterfly is centred at the top of the page, above the poem. The poem is placed in a double-ruled border in the centre of the illustration; the poem is a separate graphic unit from the illustration. Full-page illustration contained within a single-ruled rectangular border.
The sun-rise shows the gates of it,67
That open always stay ;68
You turn towards it at the Creed,69
It is not far away ;70
Dying at noon you may arrive71
Before the fall of day.72
Have we not been there, who can tell,73
In sleep, when souls walk free ?74
O, land that lies behind the veil,75
What did we hear and see ?76
Some shadow in the noonday floats,77
Of long-lost memory.78
It must be near, for when the soul79
Has slipped across the stream,80
A touch, a whisper brings it back81
Into this earthly dream,82
And we forget the things that are,83
Lost in the things that seem.84
But they will pass the waves no more,85
They will not wake again ;86
In fields of lilies far away87
The languid limbs have lain ;88
Amid the palms of Paradise89
Doth their long rest remain.90
H. E. Hamilton King.
A smaller, rectangular illustration that is placed on top of the full-page illustration. Within the rectangular border is an hourglass surrounded by cut flowers that extend outside of the border. Next to the hourglass is a hookah that is emitting smoke, as well as a pair of scissors. 1/4 page contained within a rectangular border that is single-ruled at the bottom, but is ruled with multiple lines along the top.