[Ed. Note: A "frontal" is the decorated front of a tomb; the last line is from the inscription over the gate of Hell in Dante's Divine Comedy, Canto III.]
THE tale of wake is told; the stage is bare,
The curtain falls upon the ended play;
November's fogs arise, to hide away
The withered wrack* of that which was so
fair: [ruin]
Summer is gone to be with things that were.
The sun is fallen from his ancient sway;
The night primaeval trenches* on the
day: [encroaches]
upon