“At the round earth's imagin'd corners, blow
Your trumpets, angels, and arise, arise”
No. 7, line 1
Holy Sonnets (1633)
Context: At the round earth's imagin'd corners, blow
Your trumpets, angels, and arise, arise
From death, you numberless infinities
Of souls, and to your scattred bodies go.
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