Ballades V - Of His Choice of a Sepulchre

Andrew Lang 1844 (Selkirk, Scottish Borders) – 1912 (Banchory)



HERE I ’d come when weariest!  
     Here the breast  
Of the Windberg’s tufted over  
Deep with bracken; here his crest  
     Takes the west,
Where the wide-winged hawk doth hover.  
 
Silent here are lark and plover;  
     In the cover  
Deep below, the cushat best  
Loves his mate, and croons above  
     O’er their nest,  
Where the wide-winged hawk doth hover.  
 
Bring me here, Life’s tired-out guest,  
     To the blest  
Bed that waits the weary rover,—
Here should failure be confest;  
     Ends my quest,  
Where the wide-winged hawk doth hover!  
 
ENVOY

Friend, or stranger kind, or lover,  
Ah, fulfil a last behest,
     Let me rest  
Where the wide-winged hawk doth hover!

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme aabaaB bbaxaB aabaaB baaB
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 690
Words 111
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 6, 6, 6, 4

Andrew Lang

Andrew Richard Lang FRS CBE was a British scientist and crystallographer. more…

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