| Andrew Macphail, comp. The Book of Sorrow. 1916. | | | XI. O Come Quickly
To Death | | By Robert Herrick (1591–1674) |
| | | THOU bidd’st me come away, | |
| And I’ll no longer stay | |
| Than for to shed some tears | |
| For faults of former years; | |
| And to repent some crimes, | 5 |
| Done in the present times: | |
| And next, to take a bit | |
| Of bread, and wine with it: | |
| To don my robes of love, | |
| Fit for the place above; | 10 |
| To gird my loins about | |
| With charity throughout; | |
| And so to travel hence | |
| With feet of innocence: | |
| These done, I’ll only cry, | 15 |
| ‘God, mercy!’ and so die. | | | | |
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