Inexorable

by William Drummond, of Hawthornden

    my thoughts hold mortal strife;     I do detest my life,     And with lamenting cries     Peace to my soul to bring Oft call that prince which here doth monarchise:     —But he, grim-grinning King, Who caitiffs scorns, and doth the blest surprise, Late having deck'd with beauty's rose his tomb, Disdains to crop a weed, and will not come.

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