Arthur Quiller-Couch, comp. The Oxford Book of Victorian Verse. 1922.
Death SongRobert Stephen Hawker (18031875)
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Down by the rolling sea;
Close up the eyes and straighten the hands
As a Christian man’s should be.
Six feet below the ground;
Let the sexton come and the death-bell toll
And good men stand around.
Where the priest hath bless’d the clay:
I cannot leave the unburied bones,
And I fain would go my way.