Page:The Poetical Works of William Motherwell, 1849.djvu/424

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How shrinkcth heart when sorrow nips
Affections old:
When they who cleaved to us are dust,
Why live to moan?
Better to meet a felon thrust
Than strive alone—
Better than loveless palaces
The churchyard stone!