Page:The Poetical Works of William Motherwell, 1849.djvu/442

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With book, and bell, and waxen light,
The mass for the dead is sung,
And thorough the night in the turret's height,
The great church-bells are rung.
Oh wo! oh wo! for those that go
From the light of life away,
'Whose limbs must rest with worms unblest,
In the damp and silent clay!