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On The Death Of Mrs. Mary Neudham

On The Death Of Mrs. Mary Neudham

As sinn makes gross the soule and thickens it
To fleshy dulness, so the spotless white
Of virgin pureness made thy flesh as cleere
As others soules: thou couldst not tarry heere
All soule in both parts: and what could it bee
The Resurrection could bestow on thee,
Allready glorious? thine Innocence
(Thy better shroude) sent thee as pure from hence
As saints shall rise: but hee whose bounty may
Enlighten the greate sunn with double day,
And make it more outshine itselfe than now
It can the moone, shall crowne thy varnish’d brow
With light above that sunn: when thou shalt bee
No lower in thy place than Majesty:
Crown’d with a Virgin’s wreath, outshining there
The Saints as much as thou did’st mortalls heere.
Bee this thy hope; and whilst thy ashes ly
Asleepe in death, dreame of Eternity.



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Poem On The Death Of Mrs. Mary Neudham - William Strode
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