A Disturbed Sleep


We wearied should lie down in death

And drink the sleep of centuries

I should not want to see your light again

As Heaven’s brightness satisfies all

 

 

 

In 1938 the remains of the poet Matthew Prior were accidently disturbed by literary historians in search of elegies by Edmund Spenser and believed buried with the Elizabethan in Westminster Abbey

 

 


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