WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

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 Flaming in the phoenix' sight ;

Either was the other's mine.

Property was thus appall'd, Single nature's double name

Neither two nor one was call'd.

Reason, in itself confounded, Saw division grow together ; To themselves yet either neither;

Simple were so well compounded,

That it cried, ' How true a twain Seemeth this concordant one! Love hath reason, reason none

If what parts can so remain.'

Whereupon it made this threne To the phoenix and the dove, Co-supremes and stars of love,

As chorus to their tragic scene.

��THRENOS

TDEAUTY, truth, and rarity,

• "^ Grace in all simplicity,

Here enclosed in cinders lie.

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