| Herbert J.C. Grierson, ed. (1886–1960). Metaphysical Lyrics & Poems of the 17th C. 1921. |
| |
| John Donne |
| |
| 70. "This is my playes last scene, here heavens appoint" |
| |
| THIS is my playes last scene, here heavens appoint | |
| My pilgrimages last mile; and my race | |
| Idly, yet quickly runne, hath this last pace, | |
| My spans last inch, my minutes latest point, | |
| And gluttonous death, will instantly unjoynt | 5 |
| My body, and soule, and I shall sleepe a space, | |
| But my'ever-waking part shall see that face, | |
| Whose feare already shakes my every joynt: | |
| Then, as my soule, to'heaven her first seate, takes flight, | |
| And earth-borne body, in the earth shall dwell, | 10 |
| So, fall my sinnes, that all may have their right, | |
| To where they'are bred, and would presse me, to hell. | |
| Impute me righteous, thus purg'd of evill, | |
| For thus I leave the world, the flesh, the devill. | |
| |
|
|
