The Poems and Sonnets of Henry Constable | ||
xlii
TO THE K. OF SCOTS, TOUCHING THE SUBJECT OF HIS POEMS DEDICATED WHOLIE TO HEAVENLY MATTERS.
Where others hooded with blind love doe flie
Low on the ground with buzzard Cupid's wings,
A heavenlie love, from love of love thee brings,
And makes thy Muse to mount above the skie;
Low on the ground with buzzard Cupid's wings,
A heavenlie love, from love of love thee brings,
And makes thy Muse to mount above the skie;
Young Muses be not wont to flie too hie,
Age taught by Time such sober ditties sings;
But thy youth flies from love of youthfull things,
And so the wings of Time doth overflie.
Age taught by Time such sober ditties sings;
But thy youth flies from love of youthfull things,
And so the wings of Time doth overflie.
Thus thou disdainst all worldlie things as slow;
Because thy Muse, with Angel's wings, doth leave
Time's wings behind, and Cupid's wings below;
But take thou heed, least Fame's wings thee deceave.
With all thy speede from Fame thou canst not flee,
But more thou flees, the more it followes thee.
Because thy Muse, with Angel's wings, doth leave
Time's wings behind, and Cupid's wings below;
But take thou heed, least Fame's wings thee deceave.
With all thy speede from Fame thou canst not flee,
But more thou flees, the more it followes thee.
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