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Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. 1919. The Oxford Book of English Verse: 1250–1900.

Thomas Lovell Beddoes. 1803–1849

666. Wolfram’s Dirge

IF thou wilt ease thine heart
Of love and all its smart,
Then sleep, dear, sleep;
And not a sorrow
Hang any tear on your eyelashes;	5
Lie still and deep,
Sad soul, until the sea-wave washes
The rim o’ the sun to-morrow,
In eastern sky.
But wilt thou cure thine heart	10
Of love and all its smart,
Then die, dear, die;
‘Tis deeper, sweeter,
Than on a rose-bank to lie dreaming
With folded eye;	15
And there alone, amid the beaming
Of Love’s stars, thou’lt meet her
In eastern sky.