Henry Charles Beeching, ed. (1859–1919). Lyra Sacra: A Book of Religious Verse. 1903.
By Robert Herrick (15911674)To Death
THOU bid’st me come away, | |
And I’ll no longer stay | |
Than for to shed some tears | |
For faults of former years, | |
And to repent some crimes | 5 |
Done in the present times: | |
And next, to take a bit | |
Of bread, and wine with it: | |
To don my robes of love, | |
Fit for the place above; | 10 |
To gird my loins about | |
With charity throughout; | |
And so to travel hence | |
With feet of innocence: | |
These done, I’ll only cry | 15 |
God mercy, and so die. | |