OF SHAKESPEARE 119 WHEN TIME AND LOVE HEN I have seen by Time's fell hand de- The rich proud cost of outworn buried age; When I have seen the hungry ocean gain When I have seen such interchange of state, That Time will come and take my Love away : -This thought is as a death, which cannot choose But weep to have that which it fears to lose. 120 SONGS AND SONNETS TIME AND LOVE SINCE brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea, But sad mortality o'er-sways their power, O, how shall summer's honey breath hold out O fearful meditation; where, alack, Shall Time's best jewel from Time's chest lie hid? Or what strong hand can hold his swift foot back? Or who his spoil of beauty can forbid ? O, none, unless this miracle have might, That in black ink my Love may still shine bright. OF SHAKESPEARE 121 THE WORLD'S WAY TIRED with all these, for restful death I cry,— And needy nothing trimm'd in jollity, And gilded honour shamefully misplaced, And art made tongue-tied by authority, And captive Good attending captain Ill : -Tired with all these, from these would I be gone,- Save that, to die, I leave my Love alone. 122 SONGS AND SONNETS THE ONE AND ONLY AH! wherefore with infection should he live, That sin by him advantage should achieve Why should false painting imitate his cheek And steal dead seeing of his living hue? Roses of shadow, since his rose is true? Why should he live, now Nature bankrupt is, O! him she stores, to show what wealth she had In days long since, before these last so bad. AGE UNSHAMED HUS is his cheek the map of days outworn, THUS When beauty lived and died as flowers do now, Before these bastard signs of fair were born, Before the golden tresses of the dead, Ere beauty's dead fleece made another gay: In him those holy antique hours are seen, And him as for a map doth Nature store, |