| Andrew Macphail, comp. The Book of Sorrow. 1916. | | | XXIX. The Happy Dead
Funeral Hymn from ‘Ivanhoe’ | | By Sir Walter Scott (1771–1832) |
| | | DUST into dust, | |
| To this all must; | |
| The tenant hath resign’d | |
| The faded form | |
| To waste and worm— | 5 |
| Corruption claims her kind. | |
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| Through paths unknown | |
| Thy soul hath flown, | |
| To seek the realms of woe, | |
| Where fiery pain | 10 |
| Shall purge the stain | |
| Of actions done below. | |
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| In that sad place, | |
| By Mary’s grace, | |
| Brief may thy dwelling be! | 15 |
| Till prayer and alms, | |
| And holy psalms, | |
| Shall set the captive free. | | | | |
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