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DATUR HORA QUIETI by ROBERT STEPHEN HAWKER

First Line: AT EVE SHOULD BE THE TIME,' THEY SAID
Last Line: WE LAID OUR HIRELING IN HIS BED.
Subject(s): FUNERALS; BURIALS;
'At eve should be the time,' they said,
To close their brother's narrow bed:
'Tis at that pleasant hour of day
The labourer treads his homeward way.

His work was o'er, his toil was done,
And therefore with the set of sun,
To wait the wages of the dead,
We laid our hireling in his bed.


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