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LAMENT OF THE MASTER ERSKINE by ALEXANDER SCOTT (1520-1590)

Poet Analysis

First Line: DEPAIRT, DEPAIRT, DEPAIRT
Last Line: I SAY NO MOIR.
Subject(s): ERSKINE, JOHN (1509-1591); FAREWELL; PARTING;

Depairt, depairt, depairt --
Allace! I most depairt
From hir that hes my hart,
With hairt full soir;
Aganis my will in deid,
And can find no remeid:
I wait the pains of deid --
Can do no moir. . . .
Adew, my ain sueit thing,
My joy and comforting,
My mirth and sollesing
Of erdly gloir:
Fair weill, my lady bricht,
And my remembrance rycht;
Fair weill and haif gud nycht:
I say no moir.




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