ROBERT BOWEN
ALLIS HARPOLE
1631
IF TEARS PREVENT NOT, EVERY READER'S EYE
MAY WELL PRECEIVE THAT ON THIS TOMB DOTH LYE
FRIENDS' HOPE, FOES' DREAD, WHOSE THRICE VICTORIOUS HAND
GAIN'D LOVE, WROUGHT PEACE, WITHIN THIS JOYFUL LAND;
WHOSE WORTH DOTH MOUNT ITSELF ON ANGEL'S WINGS,
WHOSE GREAT DESCENT WAS FIRST FROM ROYAL KINGS;
WHOSE NEVER-DYING VIRTUES LIVE FOR WHY
WHOSE FAME ETERNALIZED; IT CAN NEVER DYE