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Lays of France

(Founded on The Lays of Marie.) By Arthur O'Shaughnessy. Second Edition
O'Shaughnessy, Arthur William Edgar (1844-1881)

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LAUSTIC;
 
THE LAY OF THE TWO LOVERS.
 
CHAITIVEL;
 
THE LAY OF ELIDUC.
 
THE LAY OF YVENEC.

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Wheresoe'er ye be,
Forgetting or remembering me,
She sang,—I bid you now farewell:
Surely, I think, you shall not tell
Hard things of me in heaven or hell:
I pray God, that the grave be sweet
About you,—yea, and, if ye keep
Some sort of love of me through sleep,—
May the worms cease not to repeat
My sweet words lest ye wake and weep:
Only, if before God we meet,
I pray you, lovers, that no more
Ye tell me of the things I swore;
I loved you: may all death be sweet,
And peace be with you evermore.
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