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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
DATUR HORA QUIETI, by ROBERT STEPHEN HAWKER Poet's Biography
First Line: At eve should be the time,' they said
Last Line: We laid our hireling in his bed.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hawker Of Morwenstow; Hawker, R. S.
Subject(s): Funerals; Burials
First Line: At eve should be the time,' they said
Last Line: We laid our hireling in his bed.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hawker Of Morwenstow; Hawker, R. S.
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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