Gateway to the Classics: Oxford Book of English Verse, Part 3 by Arthur Quiller-Couch
 
Oxford Book of English Verse, Part 3 by  Arthur Quiller-Couch

Belinda's Recovery from Sickness

Thus when the silent grave becomes

Pregnant with life as fruitful wombs;

When the wide seas and spacious earth

Resign us to our second birth;

Our moulder'd frame rebuilt assumes

New beauty, and for ever blooms,

And, crown'd with youth's immortal pride,

We angels rise, who mortals died.

— William Broome
1689–1745   


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