Come Away, Death
William Shakespeare
1564 to 1616
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Come away, come away, death,
And in sad cypress me be laid.
Fly away, fly away, breath;
I slain by a fair cruel maid.
My shroud of white, stuck all with yew,
O, prepare it!
My part death, no one so true
Did share it.
Not flower, not a flower sweet,
On my black coffin there be strown.
Not a friend, not a friend
My poor corpse, where my bones shall be thrown.
thousand thousand sighs to save,
Lay me, O, where
true lover never find my grave,
To weep there!
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