A Selection from the Lyrical Poems of Robert Herrick

101. THE TRANSFIGURATION

     Immortal clothing I put on
     So soon as, Julia, I am gone
     To mine eternal mansion.

     Thou, thou art here, to human sight
     Clothed all with incorrupted light;
     —But yet how more admir'dly bright

     Wilt thou appear, when thou art set
     In thy refulgent thronelet,
     That shin'st thus in thy counterfeit!