Webster. Funeral Dirge for Marcello from "The White Devil" (c.1612)

Excerpt from

The White Devil

By John Webster

[Funeral Dirge for Marcello]

Call for the robin-redbreast, and the wren,
Since o�er shady groves they hover,
And with leaves and flowers do cover
The friendless bodies of unburied men.
Call unto his funeral dole
The ant, the field-mouse and the mole,
To raise him hillocks that shall keep him warm,
And (when gay tombs are robb�d) sustain no harm ;
But keep the wolf far thence, that�s foe to men,
For with his nails he�ll dig them up again.

Source:
English Literature: An Illustrated Record. Vol II, part II.
Richard Garnett and Edmund Gosse, Eds.
New York: The MacMillan Company, 1904. 335.