The Evening-Watch: A Dialogue

BODY

1         Farewell! I go to sleep; but when
2         The day-star springs, I'll wake again.

SOUL

3         Go, sleep in peace; and when thou liest
4     Unnumber'd in thy dust, when all this frame
5     Is but one dram, and what thou now descriest
6         In sev'ral parts shall want a name,
7     Then may his peace be with thee, and each dust
8     Writ in his book, who ne'er betray'd man's trust!

BODY

9         Amen! but hark, ere we two stray
10       How many hours dost think 'till day?

SOUL

11       Ah go; th'art weak, and sleepy. Heav'n
12   Is a plain watch, and without figures winds
13   All ages up; who drew this circle, even
14       He fills it; days and hours are blinds.
15   Yet this take with thee. The last gasp of time
16   Is thy first breath, and man's eternal prime.