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The Poetical Works of William Drummond of Hawthornden

With "A Cypresse Grove": Edited by L. E. Kastner
Drummond, William (1585-1649)

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xxvii.

[O most perfidious face]

O most perfidious face
That hauing lost thy loue
Dost yet retaine thy wonted hew & grace!
Thy smyling eyes said
Thy splendour should be gone,
Thy cheekes faire roses fade
And furrowed be with wrinkles shown,
Ere thy affection any whit decay,
Which now is cold & dead.
Now, Tyme, haste, make her old:
In siluer turne her lockes, her face like gold.
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