Grave

noun

A place in which the dead are laid to await the coming of the medical student.

    Beside a lonely grave I stood --
    With brambles 'twas encumbered;
    The winds were moaning in the wood,
    Unheard by him who slumbered,

    A rustic standing near, I said:
    "He cannot hear it blowing!"
    "'Course not," said he: "the feller's dead --
    He can't hear nowt [sic] that's going."

    "Too true," I said; "alas, too true --
    No sound his sense can quicken!"
    "Well, mister, wot is that to you? --
    The deadster ain't a-kickin'."

    I knelt and prayed: "O Father, smile
    On him, and mercy show him!"
    That countryman looked on the while,
    And said: "Ye didn't know him."

        Pobeter Dunko

—Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary