The poetical works of Robert Stephen Hawker Edited from the original manuscripts and annotated copies together with a prefatory notice and bibliography by Alfred Wallis |
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DATUR HORA QUIETI.
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To the MS. of this Poem is the following note:—“Why do you wish the burial to be at five o'clock?” “Because it was the time at which he used to leave work.”
“At eve should be the time,” they said,
“To close their brother's narrow bed:”
'Tis at that pleasant hour of day
The labourer treads his homeward way.
“To close their brother's narrow bed:”
'Tis at that pleasant hour of day
The labourer treads his homeward way.
His work was o'er, his toil was done,
And therefore with the set of sun,
To wait the wages of the dead,
We laid our hireling in his bed.
And therefore with the set of sun,
To wait the wages of the dead,
We laid our hireling in his bed.
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