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Poems, By J. D. [i.e. John Donne]

With Elegies on the Authors Death
Donne, John (1572-1631)
  
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Fall of a wall.

Under an undermin'd, and shot-bruis'd wall
A too-bold Captaine perish'd by the fall,
Whose brave misfortune, happiest men envi'd,
That had a towne for tombe, his bones to hide.
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