Text of the Poem | This is my play's last scene; here heavens appoint By John Donne | Eureka Study Aids

1. This is my play's last scene; here heavens appoint

2. My pilgrimage's last mile; and my race, 

3. Idly, yet quickly run, hath this last pace, 

4. My span's last inch, my minute's lastest point; 

5. And gluttonous death will instantly unjoint

6. My body and my soul, and I shall sleep a space; 

7. But my'ever-waking part shall see that face

8. Whose fear already shakes my every joint. 

9. Then, as my soul to'heaven, her first seat, takes flight, 

10. And earth-born body in the earth shall dwell, 

11. So fall my sins, that all may have their right, 

12. To where they'are bred, and would press me, to hell. 

13. Impute me righteous, thus purg'd of evil, 

14. For thus I leave the world, the flesh, the devil.