William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Georgian Verse. 1909.
The AdieuWilliam Robert Spencer (17701834)
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The death-bed with music to smooth:
So you, lovely comforter, sing
My pangs of departure to soothe!
A sorrow still keener will prove:
You lose but one friend who loves you,
How many I lose whom I love!
Which the sense or the soul can receive
With no hope in our wanderings to find
One ray of the sunshine we leave:
Or if written, but faintly appear;
Only heard thro’ the burst of a sigh,
Only read thro’ the blot of a tear!