| William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Elizabethan Verse. 1907. | | | | An Epitaph upon Husband and Wife | | By Richard Crashaw (c. 1613–1649) |
| | Who Died and Were Buried Together |
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‘TO those 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 would 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.’ | | | |
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