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98 - Dooms-day

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 May 2016

Helen Wilcox
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Bangor University
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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 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 consort raise,

And the musick shall be praise.

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Print publication year: 2016

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  • Dooms-day
  • George Herbert
  • Edited by Helen Wilcox, Bangor University
  • Book: George Herbert: 100 Poems
  • Online publication: 05 May 2016
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781316584910.099
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  • Dooms-day
  • George Herbert
  • Edited by Helen Wilcox, Bangor University
  • Book: George Herbert: 100 Poems
  • Online publication: 05 May 2016
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781316584910.099
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  • Dooms-day
  • George Herbert
  • Edited by Helen Wilcox, Bangor University
  • Book: George Herbert: 100 Poems
  • Online publication: 05 May 2016
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781316584910.099
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