| Nicholson & Lee, eds. The Oxford Book of English Mystical Verse. 1917. |
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| 10. Resurrection, imperfect |
| By John Donne (1573–1631) |
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| SLEEP sleep old Sun, thou canst not have repast | |
| As yet, the wound thou took’st on friday last; | |
| Sleepe then, and rest; The world may beare thy stay, | |
| A better Sun rose before thee to day, | |
| Who, not content to’englighten all that dwell | 5 |
| On the earths face, as thou, enlightned hell, | |
| And made the darke fires languish in that vale, | |
| As, at thy presence here, our fires grow pale. | |
| Whose body having walk’d on earth, and now | |
| Hasting to Heaven, would, that he might allow | 10 |
| Himselfe unto all stations, and fill all, | |
| For these three daies become a minerall; | |
| Hee was all gold when he lay downe, but rose | |
| All tincture, and doth not alone dispose | |
| Leaden and iron wills to good, but is | 15 |
| Of power to make even sinfull flesh like his. | |
| Had one of those, whose credulous pietie | |
| Thought, that a Soule one might discerne and see | |
| Goe from a body,’at this sepulcher been, | |
| And, issuing from the sheet, this body seen, | 20 |
| He would have justly thought this body a soule, | |
| If not of any man, yet of the whole. | |
| Desunt cætera | |
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