TO THE YEW AND CYPRESS TO GRACE HIS
FUNERAL.
by Robert Herrick

         BOTH you two have
         Relation to the grave :
               And where
    The funeral-trump sounds, you are there

             I shall be made,
       Ere long, a fleeting shade :
                     Pray, come
And do some honour to my tomb.

               Do not deny
        My last request ; for I
                     Will be
    Thankful to you, or friends for me.


Source:
Herrick, Robert. Works of Robert Herrick. vol I.
Alfred Pollard, ed.
London, Lawrence & Bullen, 1891. 138.
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