| Edward Farr, ed. Select Poetry of the Reign of King James the First. 1847. | | | | The Blessedness of Faithful Souls by Death | | LXIII. William Drummond |
| | | LET vs each day inure ourselues to dye; | |
| If this, and not our feares, be trulie death, | |
| Aboue the circles both of hope and faith, | |
| With faire, immortall pinniones to flie: | |
| If this be death, our best part to vntye, | 5 |
| By running the iaile from lust and wrath, | |
| And everie drowsie languor heere beneath, | |
| Is turning deniz’d citizen of skie, | |
| To haue more knowledge than all books containe, | |
| All pleasures euen surmounting wishing pow’re, | 10 |
| The fellowship of God’s immortall traine, | |
| And these that time nor force shall e’er deuoure: | |
| If this be death, what ioy, what golden care | |
| Of life can with deathe’s ouglinesse compare? | | | | |
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