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Francis T. Palgrave, ed. (1824–1897). The Golden Treasury. 1875.

William Drummond of Hawthornden

XLIII. Madrigal

MY thoughts hold mortal strife;

I do detest my life,

And with lamenting cries

Peace to my soul to bring

Oft call that prince which here doth monarchize:

—But he, grim grinning King,

Who caitiffs scorns, and doth the blest surprise,

Late having deck’d with beauty’s rose his tomb,

Disdains to crop a weed, and will not come.