| W. Garrett Horder, comp. The Poets’ Bible: New Testament. 1895. | | | | Upon the Sepulchre of Our Lord | | William Drummond of Hawthornden (1585–1649) |
| | | LIFE, to give life, deprived is of life, | |
| And Death display’d hath ensign against death; | |
| So violent the rigour was of death | |
| That naught could daunt it but the Life of life: | |
| No power had power to thrall Life’s pow’rs to death, | 5 |
| But willingly Life down hath laid his life. | |
| Love gave the wound which wrought the work of Death | |
| His bow and shaft were of the tree of life. | |
| Now quakes the author of eternal death, | |
| To find that they whom late he reft of life, | 10 |
| Shall fill his room above the lists of death; | |
| Now all rejoice in death who hope for life. | |
| Dead Jesus lives, who death hath killed by death, | |
| No tomb his tomb is, but new source of life. | | | | |
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