| Andrew Macphail, comp. The Book of Sorrow. 1916. | | | II. Rest
‘And more, to lulle him in his slumber soft’ | | By Edmund Spenser (1552?–1599) |
| | From ‘The Faery Queene’, Book I, Canto I, Stanza XLI. |
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AND more, to lulle him in his slumber soft, | |
| A trickling streame from high rocke tumbling downe | |
| And ever-drizling raine vpon the loft, | |
| Mixt with a murmuring winde, much like the sowne | |
| Of swarming Bees, did cast him in a swowne: | 5 |
| No other noyse, nor peoples troublous cryes, | |
| As still are wont t’annoy the wallèd towne, | |
| Might there be heard; but carelese Quiet lyes, | |
| Wrapt in eternal silence farre from enemyes. | | | |
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