| Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. 1919. The Oxford Book of English Verse: 1250–1900. |
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| William Drummond, of Hawthornden. 1585–1649 |
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| 229. Her Passing |
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| THE beauty and the life | |
| Of life's and beauty's fairest paragon | |
| —O tears! O grief!—hung at a feeble thread | |
| To which pale Atropos had set her knife; | |
| The soul with many a groan | 5 |
| Had left each outward part, | |
| And now did take his last leave of the heart: | |
| Naught else did want, save death, ev'n to be dead; | |
| When the afflicted band about her bed, | |
| Seeing so fair him come in lips, cheeks, eyes, | 10 |
| Cried, 'Ah! and can Death enter Paradise?' | |
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