Sepulchral Life + 

Lo, all the world as some vast corpse long dead, + 

Fadeth and perisheth and doth decay, + 

Even as a corpse, in whose unhonor’d clay + 

The worms have long the inmost secrets read; + 

Even as a corpse, upon whose lowly head + 

The sun beats, and the holy rain doth play; + 

Even as a corpse, whereof the people say, + 

—We would that these dead bones were buried. + 

Even so: and in the earth’s vast sepulchre + 

Our fainting souls their doubtful footsteps bear, + 

Dreaming of that which no dead men may see; + 

And in our passage to the second death, + 

We whisper strange names with our pesty breath, + 

Of Love, and Honour, and great Victory. + 