Here a solemn fast we keep, <br />While all beauty lies asleep; <br />Hush'd be all things, no noise here <br />But the toning of a tear; <br />Or a sigh of such as bring <br />Cowslips for her covering.<br /><br />Robert Herrick<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/an-epitaph-upon-a-virgin/