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Bush Barrow - Stonehenge
As sunlight lit up the great stone circle,
they laid their chieftain to rest.
With an axe and daggers beside him,
a gold lozenge upon his chest.
When the day of ceremonies was finally done,
before they covered his body,
his daughter ran,
to put a posy of wild flowers,
in her father's hand.
The burial mound kept all it's secrets,
throughout the millenia,
until the day in 1808,
when the barrow diggers came,
and rode past the ruins of Stonehenge.
After many hours of digging,
into the round mound of earth,
they came upon the prize,
the bones of the great chieftain,
the architect of Stonehenge?
They took the gold and other grave goods,
and rode past the great circle of Stonehenge,
the ancient treasure,
can be seen by all,
in the museum of the town of Devizes.
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