HER PASSING
by: William Drummond (1585-1649)
- HE beauty and the life
- Of life's and beauty's fairest paragon
- --O tears! O grief!--hung at a feeble thread
- To which pale Atropos had set her knife;
- The soul with many a groan
- Had left each outward part,
- And now did take his last leave of the heart:
- Naught else did want, save death, ev'n to be dead;
- When the afflicted band about her bed,
- Seeing so fair him come in lips, cheeks, eyes,
- Cried, 'Ah! and can Death enter Paradise?'
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