Death & Dying
Approach the Chamber, Look Upon His Bed
From Songs from the Waverley Novels (Poetical Works, Oxford 1904)
Death & Dying
APPROACH the chamber, look upon his bed.
His is the passing of no peaceful ghost,
Which, as the lark arises to the sky,
'Mid morning's sweetest breeze and softest dew,
Is wing'd to heaven by good men's sighs and tears !
Anselm parts otherwise.
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Codex Note
From Ivanhoe (1819)
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