The Works of The Ettrick Shepherd Centenary Edition. With a Memoir of the Author, by the Rev. Thomas Thomson ... Poems and Life. With Many Illustrative Engravings [by James Hogg] |
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At length, with throbbings long and deep,
Calm as a child about to sleep,
That softly lifts imploring eye
Unto the face of parent nigh,
So lay, so look'd, in piteous case,
That terror of the human race;
And so must all the achievements vast
Of this poor world end at the last.
He stretch'd the priest his hand to hold;
That hand was bloody, glued, and cold;
While these last words hung on his breath,
“Appease the gods!—Revenge my death!”
Calm as a child about to sleep,
That softly lifts imploring eye
Unto the face of parent nigh,
So lay, so look'd, in piteous case,
That terror of the human race;
And so must all the achievements vast
Of this poor world end at the last.
He stretch'd the priest his hand to hold;
That hand was bloody, glued, and cold;
While these last words hung on his breath,
“Appease the gods!—Revenge my death!”
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