Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE SPANIARD, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE



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First Line: Laid in this english ground
Last Line: To cry his sins so far from home!
Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter
Subject(s): Epitaphs


Laid in this English ground
A Spaniard slumbers sound.
Well might the tender weep
To think how he doth sleep --
Strangers on either hand --
So far from his own land.
O! when the last Trump blow,
May Christ ordain that so
This friendless one arise
Under his native skies.
How bleak to wake, how dread a doom,
To cry his sins so far from home!





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