The Yellow Book/Volume 2/A Song

by Dollie Radford

Song

By Dollie Radford

I COULD not through the burning day
In hope prevail,
Beside my task I could not stay
If love should fail.

Nor underneath the evening sky,
When labours cease,
Fold both my tired hands and lie
At last in peace.

Ah! what to me in death or life
Could then avail?
I dare not ask for rest or strife
If love should fail.