WHEN MEN SHALL FIND THY FLOW'R
by: Samuel Daniel (1562-1619)
- HEN men shall find thy flow'r,
thy glory, pass,
- And thou with careful brow, sitting alone,
- Receivèd has this message from thy glass,
- That tells the truth and says that All is gone;
- Fresh shalt thou see in me the wounds thou mad'st,
- Though spent thy flame, in me the heat remaining:
- I that have loved thee thus before thou fad'st--
- My faith shall wax, when thou art in thy waning.
- The world shall find this miracle in me,
- That fire can burn when all the matter's spent:
- Then what my faith hath been thyself shalt see,
- And that thou was unkind thou may'st repent.--
- Thou may'st repent that thou hast scorn'd my tears,
- When Winter snows upon thy sable hairs.
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