The poems of George Daniel ... From the original mss. in the British Museum: Hitherto unprinted. Edited, with introduction, notes, and illustrations, portrait, &c. By the Rev. Alexander B. Grosart: In four volumes |
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ODE I
[When I am gone, and these of mine remaine]
When I am gone, and these of mine remaine,
If these, or ought which I call mine, shall Stay;
Read over what I leave, and you againe
Adde to the Sand of Time; and give my Day
As glorious Life as when I stood to breath:
Hee Dyes not, who Survives his Dust in Death.
If these, or ought which I call mine, shall Stay;
Read over what I leave, and you againe
Adde to the Sand of Time; and give my Day
As glorious Life as when I stood to breath:
Hee Dyes not, who Survives his Dust in Death.
I doe not Beg a Life beyond my Fate,
Or aske the Courtesie you would not give;
'Tis neither You nor I can set a Date
To written Numbers, if a Muse bid live;
And these may Live; who knowes, when winds disperse
My Earth in Atomes, Men shall read this verse?
Or aske the Courtesie you would not give;
'Tis neither You nor I can set a Date
To written Numbers, if a Muse bid live;
And these may Live; who knowes, when winds disperse
My Earth in Atomes, Men shall read this verse?
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