| Andrew Macphail, comp. The Book of Sorrow. 1916. | | | XIII. Farewell
From ‘The Fair Maid of Perth’ | | By Sir Walter Scott (1771–1832) |
| | | YES, thou mayst sigh, | |
| And look once more at all around, | |
| At stream and bank, and sky and ground. | |
| Thy life its final course has found, | |
| And thou must die. | 5 |
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| Yes, lay thee down, | |
| And while thy struggling pulses flutter, | |
| Bid the grey monk his soul-mass mutter, | |
| And the deep bell its death-tone utter— | |
| Thy life is gone. | 10 |
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| Be not afraid. | |
| ’Tis but a pang, and then a thrill, | |
| A fever fit, and then a chill; | |
| And then an end of human ill, | |
| For thou art dead. | 15 | | | |
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