StoryTitle("caps", "An Epitaph Upon Husband and Wife") ?>
Who Died and Were Buried Together
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To these whom death again did wed ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "This grave's the second marriage-bed. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "For though the hand of Fate could force ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0SQ", "", "'Twixt soul and body a divorce, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "It could not sever man and wife, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Because they both lived but one life. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Peace, good reader, do not weep; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Peace, the lovers are asleep. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "They, sweet turtles, folded lie ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "In the last knot that love could tie. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Let them sleep, let them sleep on, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Till the stormy night be gone, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And the eternal morrow dawn; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Then the curtains will be drawn, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And they wake into a light ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Whose day shall never die in night.", "") ?>
Poet("Richard Crashaw", "1613?–1649") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>