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DEATH AND DIVES
DEATH
'Rise up, rise up, put off those robes,
And follow me into the night;
Leave thy gay feast, thy glittering globes;
Let fall the scales which mar thy sight;
Throw thy half-tasted winecup down—
Thou hast a deeper draught to drink
When wrapped within my sable gown,
Forgetting self, forget to think.
Obey, obey!
I have no time to pause, to stay;
We must be far away
Ere day.'
DIVES
'What! go with thee, thou fearful guest;
Be wrapped upon thy fatal breast,
To sleep forgetting and forgot?
Leave this my home of life and light,
To pass with thee across the night,
Unknown? I will not.'
