| Andrew Macphail, comp. The Book of Sorrow. 1916. | | | XXIX. The Happy Dead
On the Death of Beaumont | | By John Fletcher (1579–1625) |
| | | COME, Sorrow, come! bring all thy cries, | |
| All thy laments, and all thy weeping eyes! | |
| Burn out, you living monuments of woe! | |
| Sad sullen griefs, now rise and overflow! | |
| Virtue is dead; | 5 |
| Oh, cruel fate! | |
| All youth is fled; | |
| All our laments too late. | |
| Oh, noble youth, to thy ne’er-dying name, | |
| Oh, happy youth, to thy still growing fame, | 10 |
| To thy long peace in Earth, this sacred knell | |
| Our last loves ring—farewell, farewell, farewell! | |
| Go, happy soul, to thy eternal birth! | |
| And press thy body lightly, gentle earth! | | | | |
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