| Alfred H. Miles, ed. The Sacred Poets of the Nineteenth Century. 1907. | | | Rondeaux.
I. “Works Death such change?” | | By Charles Dent Bell (1819–1898) |
| | | WORKS Death such change upon our dead, | |
| Doth it such awe around them spread, | |
| That, would they suddenly appear, | |
| Trembling, we would recoil in fear, | |
| Though on their breast had lain our head? | 5 |
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| Why should their light and ghostly tread | |
| Thus thrill us with a nameless dread, | |
| If still we hold them all so dear? | |
| Works Death such change? | |
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| We kissed their cold lips on the bier, | 10 |
| And weeping wished the spirit here; | |
| And shall the wish be all unsaid, | |
| If some night, rising near our bed, | |
| They stand within the moonlight clear? | |
| Works Death such change? | 15 | | | |
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