| John Donne (1572–1631). The Poems of John Donne. 1896. | | | Divine Poems
Holy Sonnets | | VI. “This is my play’s last scene” |
| | | THIS is my play’s last scene; here heavens appoint | |
| My pilgrimage’s last mile; and my race | |
| Idly, yet quickly run, hath this last pace; | |
| My span’s last inch, my minutes’ latest point; | |
| And gluttonous Death will instantly unjoint | 5 |
| My body and soul, 1 and I shall sleep a space; | |
| But my ever-waking part shall see that face, | |
| Whose fear already shakes my every joint. | |
| Then, as my soul to heaven her first seat takes flight, | |
| And earth-born body in the earth shall dwell, | 10 |
| So fall my sins, that all may have their right, | |
| To where they’re bred and would press me to hell. | |
| Impute me righteous, thus purged of evil, | |
| For thus I leave the world, the flesh, the devil. | |
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