“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 scattered bodies go.”

—  John Donne , book Holy Sonnets

No. 7, line 1
Holy Sonnets (1633)

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