The Works of Abraham Cowley/Volume 2/The Separation
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.