Death & Dying
A Conjuration
From Songs from the Waverley Novels (Poetical Works, Oxford 1904)
Death & Dying
By pathless march, by greenwood tree,
It is thy weird to follow me ;
To follow me thro' the ghostly moonlight,
To follow me thro' the shadows of night,
To follow me, comrade, still art thou bound :
I conjure thee by the unstanch'd wound,
I conjure thee by the last words I spoke,
When the body slept and the spirit awoke,
In the very last pangs of the deadly stroke.
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Codex Note
From Woodstock (1826)
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