I'm sorry for the dead today

I'm sorry for the Dead - Today -
It's such congenial times
Old neighbors have at fences -
It's time o'year for Hay,

And Broad - Sunburned Ac - quaintance[^a1]
Discourse between the Toil -
And laugh, a homely species
That makes the Fences smile -

[^a1: Ac - quaintance | Acquaintance]

It seems so straight to lie away
From all theSound noise of Fields -
The Busy Carts - the fragrant Cocks -
The Mower's metre - Steals

A Trouble lest theyre[^a2] homesick -
Those Farmers - and their Wives -
PutSet separate from the Farming -
And all the Neighbor's lives -

[^a2: theyre | they're]

A Wonder if the Sepulchre
Dont feel a lonesome way -
When Men - and Boys - andLarks - Carts - and June,
Go down the Fields to "Hay" -