What he means by this is that he will earn his grave. Another common phrase that refers to a grave is "six feet under".
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The poem is an example of a pastoral poem. Pastoral poems are poems about the country life. Many famous writers like Shakespeare, Virgil, Hesiod, and Theocritus are fond of writing these types of poems. Pastoral poems are often described as pure and innocent. Most of these poems are idealized to a perfect type of country life.
<span>There are only two verbs in the sentence 'went' and 'is' so it must be 'is'. However the word 'which' acts as a conjunction which thus links the two things together. Without the 'We went' bit it would be 'Santa Fe is the second oldest city in the US.'</span>
