Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, DOOM'S DAY, by GEORGE HERBERT



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First Line: Come away / make no delay
Last Line: And the musick shall be praise.
Variant Title(s): Doomsday


COME away,
Make no delay.
Summon all the dust to rise,
Till it stirre, and rubbe the eyes;
While this member jogs the other,
Each one whispring, Live you, brother?

Come away,
Make this the day.
Dust, alas! no musick feels,
But thy trumpet: then it kneels,
As peculiar notes and strains
Cure Tarantulaes raging pains.

Come away,
O make no stay!
Let the graves make their confession,
Lest at length they plead possession:
Fleshes stubbornnesse may have
Read that lesson to the grave.

Come away,
Thy flock doth stray.
Some to the windes their bodie lend,
And in them may drown a friend:
Some in noisome vapours grow
To a plague and publick wo.

Come away,
Help our decay.
Man is out of order hurl'd,
Parcel'd out to all the world.
Lord, thy broken comfort raise,
And the musick shall be praise.





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