Poems and Readings for Funerals by Unknown

Author:Unknown
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780141911601
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Published: 2020-02-26T00:00:00+00:00

‘Dear gentle soul, who went so soon away’

Dear gentle soul, who went so soon away

Departing from this life in discontent,

Repose in that far sky to which you went

While on this earth I linger in dismay.

In the ethereal seat where you must be,

If you consent to memories of our sphere,

Recall the love which, burning pure and clear,

So often in my eyes you used to see!

If then, in the incurable, long anguish

Of having lost you, as I pine and languish,

You see some merit – do this favour for me:

And to the God who cut your life short, pray

That he as early to your sight restore me

As from my own he swept you far away.

Luis de Camoëns (1527–80),

translated from the Portuguese by

Roy Campbell

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