John Donne Selected Poems-9
hEN my grave is broke up again
Some second guest to entertain,
—For graves woman-head,
to be to more than one a bed—
And digs it, spies
A bracelet of brig the bone,
ill let us alone,
And t there a loving couple lies,
t t be some way
to make t t busy day
Meet at ttle stay?
If time, or land,
ion doth command,
t digs us up will bring
Us to the king,
to make us relics ; then
t be a Mary Magdalen, and I
A somethereby ;
All women shall adore us, and some men.
And, since at sucime miracles are sought,
I aught
miracles we .
First hfully,
Yet kne w we loved, nor why ;
Difference of sex we never knew,
No more than guardian angels do ;
Coming and going we
Perc kiss, but not bethose meals ;
Our ouche seals,
ure, injured by late las free.
t now alas !
All measure, and all language, I should pass,
Sell w a miracle she was.
ors kno why,
And my friends curiosity
ill up to survey eac,
ure in my ,
You think a sudden damp of love
ill their senses move,
And hem as me, and so prefer
Your murder to the name of massacre,
Poor victories ; but if you dare be brave,
And pleasure in your conquest have,
First kill t, your Disdain ;
And let tress be slain ;
And like a Goth and Vandal ri