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Andrew Macphail, comp. The Book of Sorrow. 1916.

XX. The Burial. Ye have forgotten the Exhortation

Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830–1894)

BURY thy dead, dear friend,

Between the night and day:

Where depths of summer shade are cool,

And murmurs of a summer pool

And windy murmurs stray….

Bury thy dead, dear love,

And make his bed most fair above:

The latest buds shall still

Blow there, and the first violets too,

And there a turtle-dove

Shall brood and coo….

Bury thy dead heart-deep:

Take patience till the sun be set:

There are no tears for him to weep,

No doubts to haunt him yet:

Take comfort, he will not forget.