| James and Mary Ford, eds. Every Day in the Year. 1902. | | | | February 8 | | Adieux a Mary Stuart | | By Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837–1909) |
| | | | Executed by order of Queen Elizabeth on Feb. 8, 1587, at Fotheringay castle. |
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THOUGH all things breathe or sound of fight | |
| That yet make up your spell, | |
| To bid you were to bid the light | |
| Farewell. | |
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| Farewell the song says only, being | 5 |
| A star whose race is run: | |
| Farewell the soul says never, seeing | |
| The sun. | |
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| Yet, wellnigh as with flash of tears, | |
| The song must say but so | 10 |
| That took your praise up twenty years | |
| Ago. | |
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| More bright than stars or moons that vary, | |
| Sun kindling heaven and hell, | |
| Here, after all these years, Queen Mary, | 15 |
| Farewell. | | | |
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