Songs from Dramas. III. Day Is Dead by Augusta Webster. Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. 1895. A Victorian Anthology, 1837-1895

Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). A Victorian Anthology, 1837–1895. 1895.

Songs from Dramas. III. Day Is Dead

Augusta Webster (1840–94)


DAY is dead, and let us sleep,
Sleep a while or sleep for aye;
’T were the best if we unknew
While to-morrow dawn’d and grew;
It may bring us time to weep:	5
We were glad to-day.
Joy for a little while is won,
Joy is ending while begun;
Then the setting of the sun;
Afterwards is long to rue.	10