| Walter Murdoch (1874–1970). The Oxford Book of Australasian Verse. 1918. |
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| 186. Farewell |
| | | By Enid Derham |
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| I LEAVE the world to-morrow,— | |
| What news for Fairyland? | |
| I’m tired of dust and sorrow | |
| And folk on every hand. | |
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| A moon more calm and splendid | 5 |
| Moves there through deeper skies, | |
| By maiden stars attended | |
| She peaces goddes-wise. | |
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| And there no wrath oppresses, | |
| And there no teardrops start, | 10 |
| There cool winds breathe caresses, | |
| That soothe the weary heart. | |
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| The wealth the mad world follows | |
| Turns ashes in the hand | |
| Of him who sees the hollows | 15 |
| And glades of Fairyland. | |
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| And pine boughs sigh no sorrow | |
| Where fairy rotas play,— | |
| I leave the world to-morrow | |
| For ever and a day. | 20 |
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