| Arthur Quiller-Couch, comp. The Oxford Book of Victorian Verse. 1922. | | | | Death Song | | By Robert Stephen Hawker (1803–1875) |
| | | THERE lies a cold corpse upon the sands | |
| Down by the rolling sea; | |
| Close up the eyes and straighten the hands | |
| As a Christian man’s should be. | |
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| Bury it deep, for the good of my soul, | 5 |
| Six feet below the ground; | |
| Let the sexton come and the death-bell toll | |
| And good men stand around. | |
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| Lay it among the churchyard stones, | |
| Where the priest hath bless’d the clay: | 10 |
| I cannot leave the unburied bones, | |
| And I fain would go my way. | | | | |
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