A DIRGE
by: John Webster
- ALL for the robin-redbreast and
the wren,
- Since o'er shady groves they hover,
- And with leaves and flowers do cover
- The friendless bodies of unburied men.
- Call unto his funeral dole
- The ant, the field-mouse, and the mole,
- To rear him hillocks that shall keep him warm,
- And (when gay tombs are robbed) sustain no harm;
- But keep the wolf far thence, that's foe to men,
- For with his nails he'll dig them up again.
'A Dirge' was originally published
in the The White Devil (1612). |
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