StoryTitle("caps", "The Funeral") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Whoever comes to shroud me, do not harm ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Nor question much ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "That subtle wreath of hair about mine arm; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The mystery, the sign you must not touch, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "For 'tis my outward soul, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Viceroy to that which, unto heav'n being gone, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Will leave this to control ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And keep these limbs, her provinces, from dissolution. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "For if the sinewy thread my brain lets fall ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Through every part ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Can tie those parts, and make me one of all; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Those hairs, which upward grew, and strength and art ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Have from a better brain, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Can better do't: except she meant that I ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "By this should know my pain, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "As prisoners then are manacled, when they're condemn'd to die. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Whate'er she meant by't, bury it with me, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "For since I am ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Love's martyr, it might breed idolatry ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "If into other hands these reliques came. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "As 'twas humility ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "T' afford to it all that a soul can do, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "So 'tis some bravery ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "That, since you would have none of me, I bury some of you. ", "") ?>
Poet("John Donne", "1573-1631") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>