Till, wrenched of every stay but Heaven,

He, ruined, sink!

Even thou who mourn’st the Daisy’s fate,

That fate is thine—no distant date; 50

Stern Ruin’s ploughshare drives, elate,

Full on thy bloom,

Till crushed beneath the furrow’s weight,

Shall be thy doom.

Robert Burns.

CXLIX
ON THE DEATH OF RICHARD WEST.