Caelica 83: You that seek what life is in death

You that seek what life is in death,
Now find it air that once was breath.
New names unknown, old names gone:
Till time end bodies, but souls none.
            Reader! then make time, while you be,
            But steps to your eternity.

Source: Elizabethan Sonnet-Cycles, edited by Martha Foote Crow (1898)