The hourglass

G. Bachlund

Do but consider this small dust

Here running in the glass,

By atoms moved;

Could you believe that this

The body was

Of one that loved?

And in his mistress' flame, playing like a fly,

Turned to cinders by her eye?

Yes; and in death, as life, unblessed,

To have't expressed,

Even ashes of lovers find no rest.