| Andrew Macphail, comp. The Book of Sorrow. 1916. | | | XIII. Farewell
Song: ‘Girls, when I am gone away’ | | By Edward Dowden (1843–1913) |
| | | GIRLS, when I am gone away, | |
| On this bosom strew | |
| Only flowers meek and pale, | |
| And the yew. | |
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| Lay these hands down by my side, | 5 |
| Let my face be bare; | |
| Bind a kerchief round the face, | |
| Smooth my hair. | |
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| Let my bier be borne at dawn, | |
| Summer grows so sweet, | 10 |
| Deep into the forest green | |
| Where boughs meet. | |
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| Then pass away, and let me lie | |
| One long, warm, sweet day | |
| There alone with face upturn’d, | 15 |
| One sweet day. | |
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| While the morning light grows broad, | |
| While noon sleepeth sound, | |
| While the evening falls and faints, | |
| While the world goes round. | 20 | | | |
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