Like truthless dreams, so are my joys expired,
And past return are all my dandled days;
My love misled, and fancy quite retired-
Of all which passed the sorrow only stays.
My lost delights, now clean from sight of land,
Have left me all alone in unknown ways;
My mind to woe, my life in fortune’s hand-
Of all which passed the sorrow only stays.
As in a country strange, without companion,
I only wail the wrong of death’s delays,
Whose sweet spring spent, whose summer well-nigh done-
Of all which passed the sorrow only stays.
Whom care forewarns, ere age and winter cold,
To haste me hence to find my fortune’s fold.
(Sir Walter Raleigh)
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