FAREWELL GOOD night, good rest. Ah, neither be my share : She bade good night that kept my rest away; Farewell, quoth she, and come again to-morrow: Yet at my parting sweetly did she smile, BEAUTY BEAUTY is but a vain and doubtful good; A shining gloss that vadeth suddenly; A flower that dies when first it 'gins to bud; A brittle glass that's broken presently : A doubtful good, a gloss, a glass, a flower, Lost, vaded, broken, dead within an hour. And as goods lost are seld or never found, So beauty blemish'd once, 's for ever lost, AN ELEGY SWEET Rose, fair Flower, untimely pluck'd, soon vaded, Pluck'd in the bud, and vaded in the spring! Fair creature, kill'd too soon by death's sharp sting! And falls, through wind, before the fall should be. I weep for thee, and yet no cause I have; -O yes, dear friend, I pardon crave of thee, THE PHOENIX AND THE TURTLE ET the bird of loudest lay, LET On the sole Arabian tree, Herald sad and trumpet be, To whose sound chaste wings obey. But thou shrieking harbinger, Foul precurrer of the fiend, Augur of the fever's end, To this troop come thou not near! From this session interdict Every fowl of tyrant wing, Save the eagle, feather'd king : Keep the obsequy so strict. Let the priest in surplice white That defunctive music can, Lest the requiem lack his right. And thou treble-dated crow, Here the anthem doth commence : In a mutual flame from hence. So they loved, as love in twain |