Requiem + 

White-rose perfume + 

Go with thee on thy way + 

Unto thy shaded tomb; + 

Low music fall + 

Lightly as autumn leaves + 

About thy solemn pall; + 

Faint incense rise + 

From many a censer swung + 

Above thy closed eyes; + 

And the sounds of them that pray + 

Make thy low bier an holy thing to be, + 

That all the beauty underneath the sun + 

Carries unto the clay. + 

Odour of musk and roses + 

Make sweet thy crimson lips + 

Whereon my soul hath gone to deep eclipse; + 

Poppies’ and violets’ scent + 

Be for thy burial lent + 

And every flower that sweetest smell discloses. + 

Upon thy breast, + 

Before which all my spirit hath bow’d down, + 

White lilies rest; + 

And for a crown upon thy mortal head + 

Be poppies red. + 

And for eternal peace + 

Be poppies strown upon thy holy eyes, + 

Till also these shall cease + 

Turning to that which man is when he dies. + 

And poppies on thine unassuaged mouth + 

Be strown, until death shall be done with thee, + 

Until the white worms shall be one with thee. + 