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

From ‘A Funeral Song’

Nicholas Grimald (1519–1562)

YEA, and a good cause, why thus should I plain!

For what is he can quietly sustain

So great a grief, with mouth as still as stone?

My love! my life! of joy my jewel is gone!…