1 'Weave the warp and weave the woof, The winding-sheet of Edward's race; Give ample room and verge enough The characters of hell to trace: Mark the year, and mark the night, When Severn shall re-echo with affright The shrieks of death through Berkley's roofs that ring, Shrieks of an agonizing king!

For there I lost my father dear, My father dear, and brethren three. 'Their winding-sheet the bluidy clay, Their graves are growing green to see: And by them lies the dearest lad That ever blest a woman's e'e! 'Now wae to thee, thou cruel lord, A bluidy man I trow thou be; For mony a heart thou hast made sair That ne'er did wrang to thine or thee!'

Yet, when he says of himself, "Open my grave when I am dead, and thou shalt see a cloud of smoke rising out from it; then shalt thou know that the fire still burns in my dead heartyea, it has set my very winding-sheet alight," there is a ring of reality in the substance which pierces through the extravagant imagery.

He was as a mystery in a winding-sheet, crowned with a halo.

Thus lives she, and all her care is that she may die in the spring-time, to have store of flowers stuck upon her winding-sheet.

How one wedding gown served our grandmothers till they exchanged it for a winding-sheet; and praises plainness, not for less sin, but for less cost.

When next I contemplated him it was in his winding-sheet, surrounded with a bright light and with two adoring angels by his side.

I then saw the limbs move, and the body of our Lord, being reunited to his soul and to his divinity, rise and shake off the winding-sheet: the whole of the cave was illuminated and lightsome.

She said no more, but seeing the empty winding-sheet, went out of the sepulchre and began to look about in other parts.

She likewise saw the empty winding-sheet, and then, feeling certain that she was not in a state of delusion, but that the apparition of our Lord was real, she walked quickly back towards Golgotha to seek her companions, who were wandering about to and fro, anxiously looking out for her return, and indulging a kind of vague hope that they should see or hear something of Jesus.

The passage quoted had been of death and its possible significance, and it was just a sigh, a fear, the old man had breathed after it: How high has the winding-sheet encompassed my own bosom!

The snow shall be their winding-sheet, And every turf beneath their feet Shall be a soldier's sepulchre.

"Weave the warp and weave the woof, The winding-sheet of Edward's race: Give ample room and verge enough

When these articles were ready, they were brought into his study, which was first warmed, and then the old man stripped off his clothes, wrapped himself in a winding-sheet which was open only so far as to reveal the face and beard, and then stood upright in the little wooden urn, supported by leaning against the board.

Donne is one of the most fascinating, in some ways one of the most inscrutable, figures in our literature, and we may contemplate him with instruction from his first wild escapade into the Azores down to his voluntary penitence in the pulpit and the winding-sheet.

Every evening found Mr. Whitelaw a punctual visitor in the snug panelled parlour, and at such times the bailiff insisted upon his daughter's presence; she was obliged to sit there night after night, stitching monotonously at some unknown calico garmentwhich might well from the state of mind of the worker have been her winding-sheet; or darning one of an inexhaustible basket of woollen stockings belonging to her father.

From the ground, without either a wind to carry them or a winding-sheet ready, these things, for all their poison, could do him little evil.

I have longed for this departure, and none can turn me from it; wherefore, my son, get all things ready, and place in the chest with my books the winding-sheet to wrap up my old body."

Accordingly, the Chaste Penelope having, as she thought, lost Ulysses at Sea, she employed her time in preparing a Winding-sheet for Laertes, the Father of her Husband.

" By her request, I and a dear friend, Martha Campbell, prepared her body for burial, and we wrapped her in a linen winding-sheet, as the body of Christ was buriedno flowers, no decorations; only stern, solemn Death.

And with that she turned on her heel and went upstairs to select a winding-sheet for him.

and now her ear caughtand still againa voice of earth, clear; and it had power to start her up from under the snow, that was surely weaving and thickening her virgin winding-sheet.

But he begged that he might have the book with him in his coffin; and now it lies there, and the lid will soon be fastened down, and then he will take his peaceful rest in the grave!" They raised the winding-sheet.

She came,bright gleam of the dawning day; She went,pale dream of the winding-sheet.

" Then a skeleton hand came out of the winding-sheet, pointing down at the square of bristling bayonets.