| Andrew Macphail, comp. The Book of Sorrow. 1916. | | | IX. The Sadness of It
‘Come not, when I am dead’ | | By Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892) |
| | | COME not, when I am dead, | |
| To drop thy foolish tears upon my grave, | |
| To trample round my fallen head, | |
| And vex the unhappy dust thou wouldst not save. | |
| There let the wind sweep and the plover cry; | 5 |
| But thou, go by. | |
| |
| Child, if it were thine error or thy crime | |
| I care no longer, being all unblest: | |
| Wed whom thou wilt, but I am sick of Time, | |
| And I desire to rest. | 10 |
| Pass on, weak heart, and leave me where I lie: | |
| Go by, go by. | | | | |
|
|
