Hark! She is called, the parting hour is come. Take thy farewell, poor world! Heaven must go home. . . .
Richard Crashaw (1949). “The verse in English of Richard Crashaw: the 1646 text of Steps to the temple and The delights of the Muses; the 1652 text of Carmen Deo Nostro; the 1653 text of A letter from Mr. Crashaw to the Countess of Denbigh; and the poems from manuscript”