Death speaks one word and all Love’s speech is dumb
And on Love’s parted lips that breathe farewell
Death’s marble finger lays its mystic spell
And bears the unuttered message to the tomb,
From whose closed door no whispered echoes come
To break the discord of the tolling bell
That sounds through city lane and woodland dell
With the sad burthen of Love’s martyrdom.
And so Love dies. Ah no! it is not so!
For locked in Death’s white arms Love lies secure
In changeless sleep that knows no dream of change.
’Tis Life not Death that works Love’s overthrow,
For while Life lasts what love is safe or sure
When each day tells of passionate hearts grown strange?

J. C. C.

1890.

GLASGOW: PRINTED AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS BY ROBERT MACLEHOSE AND CO. LTD.

Transcriber’s Notes

Note: In The Table of Contents, ‘IX Social Occasions p115’ is entitled ‘Entertainment’ in the body of the book.

Page 12: changed, of his sisters’—shaken to of his sister’s—shaken

Page 41: changed, me some grapes, to me some grapes,’

Page 44: changed, surburban to suburban

Page 73: changed, flummuxed to flummoxed

Page 88: changed, ‘Wall Sir, I hope’ to ‘Well Sir, I hope’

Page 126: changed, opportunites to opportunities

Page 136: added the word ‘whom’ - the centre around whom the children

Page 145: changed, children, criminals and women.” to children, criminals and women.’

Page 170: changed, horsesmen to horsemen