THE beauty and the life
Of life's and beauty's fairest paragon
--O tears! O grief!--hung at a feeble thread
To which pale Atropos had set her knife;
The soul with many a groan
Had left each outward part,
And now did take his last leave of the heart:
Naught else did want, save death, ev'n to be dead;
When the afflicted band about her bed,
Seeing so fair him come in lips, cheeks, eyes,
Cried, 'Ah! and can Death enter Paradise?'
More verses by William Henry Drummond
- A Lament
- De Notaire Publique
- De Nice Leetle Canadienne
- How Bateese Came Home
- The Wreck Of The "Julie Plante": A Legend Of Lac St. Pierre