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There is a saddening sort of feeling in entering these homes of the dead "To see skull, coffin'd bones, and funeral state; Pitying each form that hungry Death had marr'd, And filling it once more with human soul." After going through some hundred yards of this vast tomb, I felt glad to return to the sunlight and pure air of the living world.
And the two young souls, who hovered on the brink of heaven, were obliged to listen to the latest gossip of fashionable Boston. "Not all that heralds rake from coffin'd clay, Nor florid prose, nor horrid lies of rhyme, Can blazon evil deeds, or consecrate a crime." Byron.
The woman had said truly, 'my boy Marcius is coming home. And when he greets the weeping Virgilia, who cannot speak but with her tears, these are the words with which he measures that private joy Would'st thou have laughed, had I come coffin'd home, That weep'st to see me triumph? Ah, my dear, Such eyes the widows in Corioli wear, And mothers that lack sons.
Many of his sonnets breathe the spirit of despair and hopelessness. He laments his lameness; apologizes for his profession as an actor; expresses his "fear of trust" in himself, and his hopeless, perhaps misplaced, affection; anticipates a "coffin'd doom;" and utters his profoundly pathetic cry "for restful death."
I caused his body to be coffin'd in lead, and reposited on the 30th at 8 o'clock that night in the church at Deptford, accompanied with divers of my relations and neighbours among whom I distributed rings with this motto: Dominus abstulit; intending, God willing, to have him transported with my owne body to be interr'd in our dormitory in Wotton Church, in my dear native county of Surrey, and to lay my bones and mingle my dust with my fathers, if God be gracious to me and make me fit for Him as this blessed child was.
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