What poetry is cited in r f delderfields Diana?

Answer 1

On Foxhayes edge go scatter my ashes

above the ground in sunlit splashes,

Where all about my powdered bones

the trefoil weaves between the stones.

Where what I was feeds foxglove roots

and robust April parsley shoots

Five miles or more from a churchyard drab

where underneath a lettered slab,

the body that has served me well

would bloat in clay, pathetic shell.

At Foxhayes edge atop the grass

I'll sense successive seasons pass

I'll see the beeches overhead

turn tangerine and rusty red

I'll hear the sky-seen of the their leaves

wind gossiping to younger trees.

Then, with the fall of blue-smoke dusk

I'll settle in the rustling husk

of brittle, sun-dried bracken stalk

to hear the spruce and larches talk

And see the lovers come and go;

or later, when the New Years snow

builds up in drifts below the hedge

crisping the blades of dock and sedge

I'll wait content, to stir in sleep

the hour the earliest violets peep

for with them all the wood will rustle

under the west wind's old maid's bustle

lifting perhaps a speck of me

and bearing it due south to sea