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Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. 1919. The Oxford Book of English Verse: 1250–1900.
John Webster. ?1630?
218. A Dirge
CALL for the robin-redbreast and the wren, | |
Since o’er shady groves they hover, | |
And with leaves and flowers do cover | |
The friendless bodies of unburied men. | |
Call unto his funeral dole | 5 |
The ant, the field-mouse, and the mole, | |
To rear him hillocks that shall keep him warm, | |
And (when gay tombs are robb’d) sustain no harm; | |
But keep the wolf far thence, that ‘s foe to men, | |
For with his nails he’ll dig them up again. | 10 |
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GLOSS: dole] lamentation. |