<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=341928" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>After Death</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">THE FOUR boards of the coffin lid<br>Heard all the dead man did.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The first curse was in his mouth,<br>Made of grave’s mould and deadly drouth.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The next curse was in his head,<br>Made of God’s work discomfited.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The next curse was in his hands,<br>Made out of two grave-bands.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The next curse was in his feet,<br>Made out of a grave-sheet.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">“I had fair coins red and white,<br>And my name was as great light;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I had fair clothes green and red,<br>And strong gold bound round my head.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But no meat comes in my mouth,<br>Now I fare as the worm doth;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And no gold binds in my hair,<br>Now I fare as the blind fare.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">My live thews were of great strength,<br>Now am I waxen a span’s length;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">My live sides were full of lust,<br>Now are they dried with dust.”</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The first board spake and said:<br>“Is it best eating flesh or bread?”</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The second answered it:<br>“Is wine or honey the more sweet?”</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The third board spake and said:<br>“Is red gold worth a girl’s gold head?”</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The fourth made answer thus:<br>“All these things are as one with us.”</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The dead man asked of them:<br>“Is the green land stained brown with flame?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Have they hewn my son for beasts to eat,<br>And my wife’s body for beasts’ meat?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Have they boiled my maid in a brass pan,<br>And built a gallows to hang my man?”</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The boards said to him:<br>“This is a lewd thing that ye deem.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Your wife has gotten a golden bed,<br>All the sheets are sewn with red.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Your son has gotten a coat of silk,<br>The sleeves are soft as curded milk.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Your maid has gotten a kirtle new,<br>All the skirt has braids of blue.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Your man has gotten both ring and glove,<br>Wrought well for eyes to love.”</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The dead man answered thus:<br>“What good gift shall God give us?”</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The boards answered him anon:<br>“Flesh to feed hell’s worm upon.”</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Algernon+Charles+Swinburne">Algernon Charles Swinburne</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=341928" data-title="After Death de Algernon Charles Swinburne" data-description="THE FOUR boards of the coffin lid Heard all the dead man did. The first curse was in his mouth, Made of grave’s mould and deadly drouth. The next curse was in his head, Made of God’s work discomfited. The next curse was in his hands, Made o..."></div> </div> </div>

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