Andrew Macphail, comp. The Book of Sorrow. 1916.
‘O Death, rocke me on sleep’George Boleyn, Viscount Rochford (?) (1504?–1536)
O D
Bring me on quiet rest,
Let pass my very guiltless ghost
Out of my careful breast!
Toll on the Passing Bell!
Ring out the doleful knell!
Let the sound my death tell:
For I must die!
There is no remedy,
For now I die!…
Welcome, my present pain!
I feel my torments so increase,
That life cannot remain!
Cease now the Passing Bell!
Rung is my doleful knell!
For the sound my death doth tell!
Death doth draw nigh!
Sound my end dolefully!
For now I die.