The Wheat although a while it lyes in Earth,

(And seemeth lost) consumes not quite away;

But, from that Wombe receives another Birth,

And, with Additions, riseth from the Clay.

Much more shall Man revive, whose worth is more:

For, Death, who from our Drosse will us refine,

Vnto that other Life, becomes the Doore,

Where, we in Immortalitie shall shine.

When once our Glasse is runne, we presently

Give up our Soules to Death; So Death must give