244 TO ALL YOU LADIES NOW ON LAND. But now our fears tempestuous grow, Whilst you, regardless of our woe, Perhaps permit some happier man When any mournful tune you hear As if it sighed with each man's care, Then think how often love we've made In justice you cannot refuse To think of our distress, When we, for hopes of honour, lose All those designs are but to prove And now we've told you all our loves, Charles Sackville, Lord Dorset. 246 THE DEATH OF THE BRAVE. Weigh the vessel up Once dreaded by our foes! Her timbers yet are sound, Full charged with England's thunder, And plough the distant main: But Kempenfelt is gone, And he and his eight hundred Shall plough the wave no more. W. Cowper. THE DEATH OF THE BRAVE. How sleep the brave, who sink to rest By fairy hands their knell is rung, W. Collins. A DIRGE. 247 A DIRGE. O SING unto my roundelay, O drop the briny tear with me; Gone to his death-bed, All under the willow-tree. Black his cryne as the winter night, Gone to his death-bed, All under the willow-tree. Sweet his tongue as the throstle's note, Deft his tabor, cudgel stout; O! he lies by the willow-tree: Gone to his death-bed, All under the willow-tree. Hark! the raven flaps his wing Gone to his death-bed, All under the willow-tree. See! the white moon shines on high; Gone to his death-bed, All under the willow-tree. Here upon my true love's grave Gone to his death-bed, All under the willow-tree. With my hands I'll dent the briars Gone to his death-bed, All under the willow-tree. Come, with acorn-cup and thorn, Drain my heartè's blood away; Gone to his death-bed, All under the willow tree. Water-witches crowned with reytes, Thomas Chatterton. |