f loudest y,
on the sole arabian tree,
herald sad and trumpet be,
to whose sound chaste wings obey
but thou, shrieking harbinger,
foul pre-currer of the fiend,
augur of the fever's end,
to this troop e thou not near
from this session interdict
every fowl of tyrant wing,
se the eagle, feather'd king:
keep the obsequy so strict
let the priest in surplice white,
that defunctive music can,
be the death-divining swan,
lest the requiem ck his right
and thou, treble-dated crow,
that thy sable gender mak'st
with the breath thou giv'st and tak'st,
'mongst our mouers shalt thou go
here the anthem doth mence:
love and constancy is dead;
phoenix and the turtle fled
in a mutual fme from hence
so they lov'd, as love in twain
had the essence but in one;
two distincts, division none:
number there in love was sin
hearts remote, yet not asunder;
distance, and no space was seen
'twixt the turtle and his queen;
but in them it were a wonder
so between them love did shine,
that the turtle saw his right
fming in the phoenix' sight:
either was the other's mine
property was thus appall'd,
that the self was not the same;
single nature's double name
neither two nor one was call'd
reason, in itself confounded,
saw divisio