| Andrew Macphail, comp. The Book of Sorrow. 1916. | | | XXVI. Melancholy
Dirge for Wolfram | | By Thomas Lovell Beddoes (1803–1849) |
| | | IF thou wilt ease thine heart | |
| Of love and all its smart, | |
| Then sleep, dear, sleep; | |
| And not a sorrow | |
| Hang any tear on your eyelashes; | 5 |
| Lie still and deep, | |
| Sad soul, until the sea-wave washes | |
| The rim o’ the sun to-morrow, | |
| In eastern sky. | |
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| But wilt thou cure thine heart | 10 |
| Of love and all its smart, | |
| Then die, dear, die; | |
| ’Tis deeper, sweeter, | |
| Than on a rose-bank to lie dreaming | |
| With folded eye; | 15 |
| And then alone, amid the beaming | |
| Of love’s stars, thou’lt meet her | |
| In eastern sky. | | | | |
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