C.D. Warner, et al., comp. The Library of the World’s Best Literature.
An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

Attributed Songs: Threnos

BEAUTY, truth, and rarity,

Grace in all simplicity,

Here inclosed in cinders lie.

Death is now the Phœnix’s nest;

And the turtle’s loyal breast

To eternity doth rest.

Leaving no posterity:

’Twas not their infirmity,

It was married chastity.

Truth may seem, but cannot be;

Beauty brag, but ’tis not she:

Truth and beauty buried be.

To this urn let those repair

That are either true or fair;

For these dead birds sigh a prayer.