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The graveless markers notwithstanding, those who run the museum are convinced they have their own forgotten cemetery - somewhere on the city-block sized property at 601 Museum Court.

From Washington Times • Dec. 14, 2019

Over thick graves grown green, Over pale bones that graveless lie and bleach, Over torn human hearts her path doth reach, And Heaven's dear pity lean.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 94, August, 1865 by Various

The black bat flits, the eerie white moth flies— Wan ghost of yesterday's bright butterfly— The dusking forest pools uplooking lie Like graveless dead men's staring, sightless eyes.

From The Path of Dreams Poems by Giltner, Leigh Gordon

All those who thus died are graveless and monumentless, the great circle of the heavens is the dome of their sepulchre, and the recurring blossoms of springtime their only epitaph.

From The old Santa Fe trail The Story of a Great Highway by Buffalo Bill

Then when I die, a grave for me— But in the graveless sea!

From Song-Surf by Rice, Cale Young