O Mors! Quam Amara Est Memoria Tua Homini Pacem Habenti In Substantiis Suis

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Exceeding sorrow
  Consumeth my sad heart!
  Because to-morrow
  We must depart,
  Now is exceeding sorrow
  All my part!

  Give over playing,
  Cast thy viol away:
  Merely laying
  Thine head my way:
  Prithee, give over playing,
  Grave or gay.

  Be no word spoken;
  Weep nothing: let a pale
  Silence, unbroken
  Silence prevail!
  Prithee, be no word spoken,
  Lest I fail!

  Forget to-morrow!
  Weep nothing: only lay
  In silent sorrow
  Thine head my way:
  Let us forget to-morrow,
  This one day!

© Ernest Christopher Dowson