QUICK, DEATH!

(After Huw Morus)


This room an antechamber is:
Beyond--the Hall of Very Bliss!
Quick, Death! for underneath thy door
I see the glimmering of Heaven's floor.





COUNSEL IN VIEW OF DEATH

(After Elis Wyn, 1671-1734, one of the Welsh Classics)


Leave your land, your goods lay down!
Life's green tree shall soon grow brown.
Pride of birth and pleasure gay
Renounce or they shall own you!

Manly strength and beauty fair,