The Works of Abraham Cowley/Volume 2/The Separation

by Abraham Cowley

THE SEPARATION.

Ask me not what my love shall do or be
(Love, which is soul to body, and soul of me!)
When I am separated from thee;
Alas! I might as easily show,
What after death the soul will do;
'T will last, I'm sure, and that is all we know.

The thing call'd soul will never stir nor move,
But all that while a lifeless carcase prove;
For ’tis the body of my love:
Not that my love will fly away,
But still continue; as, they say,
Sad troubled ghosts about their graves do stray.