Song From The Waters

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Act I, scene iv, lines 259-72

The swallow leaves her nest,
The soul my weary breast;
But therefore let the rain
  On my grave
Fall pure; for why complain
Since both will come again
  O'er the wave.

The wind dead leaves and snow
Doth hurry to and fro;
And, once, a day shall break
  O'er the wave,
When a storm of ghosts shall shake
The dead, until they wake
  In the grave.

© Thomas Lovell Beddoes