VERSES AMONG THE ADDITIONAL POEMS TO CHESTER'S LOVE'S MARTYR, 1601. LET the bird of loudest lay, But thou, shrieking harbinger, Foul pre-currer of the fiend, Augur of the fever's end, To this troop come thou not nea 1 There is a curious coincidence in a passage in The Tem pest: "Now I will believe That there are unicorns; that in Arabia There is one tree, the phoenix throne." From this session interdict Let the priest in surplice white And thou, treble-dated crow, With the breath thou giv'st and tak'st, Here the anthem doth commence · In a mutual flame from hence. So they loved, as love in twain Hearts remote, yet not asunder; So between them love did shine, 1 Can, knows. Property was thus appalled, Reason, in itself confounded, That it cried how true a twain Whereupon it made this threne1 THRENOS. Beauty, truth, and rarity, Grace in all simplicity, Here enclosed in cinders lie Death is now the phoenix' nest; And the turtle's loyal breast Leaving no posterity: 1 Threne, funereal song. |