Death & Dying
To the Dead
From A Victorian Anthology, 1837–1895, ed. Edmund Clarence Stedman (1895)
Death & Dying
Gone art thou? gone, and is the light of day
Still shining, is my hair not touch'd with gray?
But evening draweth nigh, I pass the door,
And see thee walking on the dim-lit shore.
Gone, art thou? gone, and weary on the brink
Of Lethe waiting there. O do not drink,
Drink not, forget not, wait a little while,
I shall be with thee; we again may smile.
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Scott, William Bell. “To the Dead.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/scott_wb/11/.
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Scott, William Bell. “To the Dead.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/scott_wb/11/.
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