Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. 1919. The Oxford Book of English Verse: 1250–1900.
Richard Crashaw. 1613?1649342. An Epitaph upon Husband and Wife Who died and were buried together
TO these whom death again did wed | |
This grave ‘s the second marriage-bed. | |
For though the hand of Fate could force | |
‘Twixt soul and body a divorce, | |
It could not sever man and wife, | 5 |
Because they both lived but one life. | |
Peace, good reader, do not weep; | |
Peace, the lovers are asleep. | |
They, sweet turtles, folded lie | |
In the last knot that love could tie. | 10 |
Let them sleep, let them sleep on, | |
Till the stormy night be gone, | |
And the eternal morrow dawn; | |
Then the curtains will be drawn, | |
And they wake into a light | 15 |
Whose day shall never die in night. |