| Andrew Macphail, comp. The Book of Sorrow. 1916. | | | XII. Love and Death
An Epitaph upon husband and wife who died and were buried together | | By Richard Crashaw (c. 1613–1649) |
| | | 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 this 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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