What poem is "ashes to ashes, dust to dust" from?

Question

what poem

Answer 1

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/ashes-to-...

ashes to ashes dust to dust, the pain crashes?

Answer 2

From the English Burial Service. Adapted from the Biblical text, Genesis 3:19 (King James Version):

    "In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return."

Answer 3

Ravyn is correct, but more properly it is from the burial service taken from the "Book of Common Prayer" of the Church of England

"Then while the earth shall he cast upon the body by some standing by, the priest shall say.

  

FORASMUCH as it hath pleased Almighty God of his great mercy to take unto himself the soul of our dear brother here departed: we therefore commit his body to the ground, **earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust,** in sure and certain hope of resurrection to eternal life, through our Lord Jesus Christ, who shall change our vile body that it may be like to his glorious body, according to the mighty working, whereby he is able to subdue all things to himself. "

"Book of common prayer 1599"

http://www.ccel.org/h/herbert/temple/Bur...