William Drummond of Hawthornden (1585-1649). I Fear Not Henceforth Death. William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. 1907. The Book of Elizabethan Verse

William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Elizabethan Verse. 1907.

I Fear Not Henceforth Death

By William Drummond of Hawthornden (1585–1649)


I FEAR not henceforth death,
Sith after this departure yet I breathe;
Let rocks, and seas, and wind
Their highest treasons show;
Let sky and earth combined	5
Strive, if they can, to end my life and woe;
Sith grief cannot, me nothing can o’erthrow:
Or if that aught can cause my fatal lot,
It will be when I hear I am forgot.