| Andrew Macphail, comp. The Book of Sorrow. 1916. | | | XI. O Come Quickly
‘O Death, rocke me on sleep’ | | By George Boleyn, Viscount Rochford (?) (1504?–1536) |
| | | O DEATH, rocke me on sleep, | |
| Bring me on quiet rest, | |
| Let pass my very guiltless ghost | |
| Out of my careful breast! | |
| Toll on the Passing Bell! | 5 |
| Ring out the doleful knell! | |
| Let the sound my death tell: | |
| For I must die! | |
| There is no remedy, | |
| For now I die!… | 10 |
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| Farewell, my pleasures past! | |
| Welcome, my present pain! | |
| I feel my torments so increase, | |
| That life cannot remain! | |
| Cease now the Passing Bell! | 15 |
| Rung is my doleful knell! | |
| For the sound my death doth tell! | |
| Death doth draw nigh! | |
| Sound my end dolefully! | |
| For now I die. | 20 | | | |
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