| Andrew Macphail, comp. The Book of Sorrow. 1916. | | | XXIX. The Happy Dead
Athulf’s Song | | By Thomas Lovell Beddoes (1803–1849) |
| | From ‘Death’s Jest Book’
A CYPRESS-BOUGH, and a rose-wreath sweet, | |
| A wedding-robe, and a winding-sheet, | |
| A bridal-bed and a bier. | |
| Thine be the kisses, maid, | |
| And smiling Love’s alarms; | 5 |
| And thou, pale youth, be laid | |
| In the grave’s cold arms. | |
| Each in his own charms, | |
| Death and Hymen both are here; | |
| So up with scythe and torch, | 10 |
| And to the old church porch, | |
| While all the bells ring clear; | |
| And rosy, rosy the bed shall bloom, | |
| And earthy, earthy heap up the tomb. | | | | |
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