Death & Dying
Upon a Coffin
From Complete Poems, ed. Grosart (1876)
Death & Dying
There was a man bespake a thing
Which when the owner home did bring,
He that made it did refuse it;
And he that brought it would not use it,
And he that hath it doth not know
Whether he hath it, ay or no.
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Davies, John. “Upon a Coffin.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/davies/188/.
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Davies, John. “Upon a Coffin.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/davies/188/.
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