"might" This is suggesting potential, not that some conqueror or great artist is buried in the graveyard. These rude forefathers "might" have been such reknown men--they may have had the potential--but they were not. They were farmers. back to poem
"might"
This is suggesting potential, not that some conqueror or great artist is buried in the graveyard. These rude forefathers "might" have been such reknown men--they may have had the potential--but they were not. They were farmers.