| Andrew Macphail, comp. The Book of Sorrow. 1916. | | | XII. Love and Death
A Symphonic Study | | By Emma Lazarus (1849–1887) |
| | | HARK! from unfathomable deeps a dirge | |
| Swells sobbing through the melancholy air: | |
| Where Love has entered, Death is also there. | |
| The wail outrings the chafed, tumultuous surge; | |
| Ocean and earth, the illimitable skies, | 5 |
| Prolong one note, a mourning for the dead, | |
| The cry of souls not to be comforted. | |
| What piercing music! Funeral visions rise, | |
| And send the hot tears raining down our cheek. | |
| We see the silent grave upon the hill | 10 |
| With its lone lilac-bush. O heart, be still! | |
| She will not rise, she will not stir nor speak. | |
| Surely, the unreturning dead are blest. | |
| Ring on, sweet dirge, and knell us to our rest! | | | | |
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