God's Acre (German Gottesacker, lit. Field of God) is an ancient Germanic designation for a burial ground.
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“I love thee with a love I seemed to lose
With my lost saints,—I love thee with the breath,
Smiles, tears, of all my life!—and, if God choose,
I shall but love thee better after death.”
—Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861)
“And every acre good enough to eat,
As fine as flour put through a baker’s sieve.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)