The Relique lyrics

by

John Donne


When my grave is broke up again
Some second guest to entertain
(For graves have learn'd that woman head
To be to more than one a bed)
And he that digs it, spies
A bracelet of bright hair about the bone
Will he not let'us alone
And think that there a loving couple lies
Who thought that this device might be some way
To make their souls, at the last busy day
Meet at this grave, and make a little stay?

If this fall in a time, or land
Where mis-devotion doth command
Then he, that digs us up, will bring
Us to the bishop, and the king
To make us relics; then
Thou shalt be a Mary Magdalen, and I
A something else thereby;
All women shall adore us, and some men;
And since at such time miracles are sought
I would have that age by this paper taught
What miracles we harmless lovers wrought

First, we lov'd well and faithfully
Yet knew not what we lov'd, nor why;
Difference of sex no more we knew
Than our guardian angels do;
Coming and going, we
Perchance might kiss, but not between those meals;
Our hands ne'er touch'd the seals
Which nature, injur'd by late law, sets free;
These miracles we did, but now alas
All measure, and all language, I should pass
Should I tell what a miracle she was
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