Poem Composed by Queen Mary in View of Her Approaching Death
O Domine Deus, speravi in te!
O care mi Jesu, nunc libera me!
In dura catena, in misera poena,
Languendo, gemendo, et genu flectendo,
Adoro, imploro ut liberes me.
Tr. Mr. Swinburne, Mary Stuart, Act V.
O Lord my God,
I have trusted in thee;
O Jesu my dearest one,
Now set me free.
In prison’s oppression,
In sorrow’s obsession,
I weary for thee.
With sighing and crying,
Bowed down as dying,
I adore thee, I implore thee, set me free!
PARTING WITH ROBERT MELVILLE