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EDMUND WAILLER PONCI & VEROLD Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2007 with funding from Microsoft Corporation http://www.archive.org/details/songsversesOOwallrich 20ME SONGS AND VERSES BY EDMUND WALLER SA THE TREE PRESS TO PY BIL WALLER SONGS & VERSES SELECTED FROM THE WORKS OF EDMUND WALLER THE PEAR-TREE PRE99 : £3 JOUTH HARTING SUSES €3 COATES L | SONC. PEACE BABLING MUSE! | TO PHYLLIS, SONC. CHLORI2 FAREWELL! ON A CIRDLE. SONC. TO FLAVIA. SONC. TO LOVELY RO%. LACE, BABLING MUSE! DARE. NOT SING WHAT YOU INDITE ; HER EYES REFUSE. TO READ THE PASSION WHICH THEY WRITE: % SHE STRIKES MY LUTE, BUT IF IT SOUND, THREATENS TO HURL IT ON THE CROUND: AND | NO LEADS HER ANCER DREAD, THAN THE POOR WRETCH THAT FEICNS HIM DEAD WHILE SOME FIERCE LION DOES EMBRACE HID BREATHLESS CORPS, AND LICK HID FACE: WRAP’D UP IN SILENT FEAR HE LIES, TORN ALL IN PIECES, IF HE CRIES. PS y VR} —— D>, JO PHYLLIS Anns WHY SHOULD WE DELAY PLEASURES SHORTER THAN THE DAY? COULD WE (WHICH WE NEVER S CAN!) STRETCH OUR LIVES BEYOND THEIR SPAN; BEAUTY LIKE A SHADOW FLIES, AND OUR YOUTH BEFORE US DIES. OR WOULD YOUTH, AND BEAUTY, STAY, LOVE. HATH WINGS, AND WILL AWAY. LOVE. HATH SWIFTER WINGS THAN TIME: CHANCE. IN LOVE. TO HEAVEN DOES CLIMB: COD, THAT NEVER CHANCE THEIR SATE, VARY OF THEIR LOVE AND HATE. PHYLLIS TO THE TRUTH WE OWE LL THE LOVE BETWEEN TWO: LET NOT YOU AND ENQUIRE, 3) WHAT HAS BEEN OUR PAST DEJIRL: ON WHAT SHEPHERD? YOU HAVE SMILD, OR WHAT AYMPHOP HAVE BEEN: LEAVE IT TO THE PLANETS TOO, WHAT WE SHALL HEREAFTER DO: FOR THE JOY WE NOW MAY PROVE, TAKE ADVICE OF PREYENT LOVE. HORI9 FAREWELL! NOW OS MUST CO: FOR IF WITH THE LONGER STAY, THY EYES PREVAIL UPON PC 30, | SHALL PROVE BLIND, AND LOOL WAY. PRS FAME OF THY BEAUTY, AND THY YOUTH, AMONG THE REIT, ME HITHER BROUCHT: FINDING THIS FAME FALL SHORT OF TRUTH, MADE ME STAY LONCER THAN THOUCHT. UC: YS 4 QFOOR I CNCACED BY Y WORD AND OATH, A SERVANT TO ANOTHERS | WILL: YET, FOR THY LOVE.!’D FORFEIT BOTH, COULD | BE SURE TO KEEP IT STILL. ABRA BUT WHAT ASURANCE CAN | TAKE? WHEN THOU, FOREKNOWING THIS ADUSE, FOR SOME MORE WORTHY LOVER JAKE, MAY'S LEAVE ME WITH 90 JUST EXCUSE. OR THOU MAYST SAY, ‘TWAS NOT THY FAULT ACUIT THOU DIDST THUS SEE INCONSTANT PROVE: BY BEING BY MY EXAMPLE TAUCHT TO BREAK THY OATH, TO MEND THY LOVE. BAB NO, CHLORIS, NO: | WILL RETURN, AND RAISE THY STORY TO THAT HEIGHT, THAT STRANCLERI SHALL AT DISTANCE DURAN; AND SHE DISTRUST ME REPROBATE. 16 HEN SHALL MY LOVE THI AND CAIN SUCH TRUST, THAT | MAY COME ON THY FACE, BUT MAKE “NY CONSTANT MEALD SOR DOUBT DISPLACE, AND ESAND BANQUET SOMETIMES AT HOME. ZA NSNIT Wtictt HER. SLENDER ST] Sy) WAIST CONFIN’D, : (OR SHALL NOW MY JOYFUL oe Bal)) SS A TEMPLES BIND: XS, NO MONARCH BUT WOULD CIVE HId CROWN, Z| HIS ARMS MICHT DO WHAT THIZ HAD DONE. IT WAS MY HEAVNS EXTREME ST SPHERE, | THE. PALE. WHICH HELD THAT LOVELY DEER: MY JOY, MY GRIEF, MY HOPE, IY OVE. DID ALL WITHIN THIS CIRCLE MONE: 20 f YET THERE PD OWELT ALL THATS COOD, ¥ PX AND ALL THATS FAIR: THI) ~FIBAND BOUND, TAKE ALL THE REST THE 9UN COE ROUND. 2! CR CRC DONG. TO FLAVIA. ca | S FN I9 NOT YOUR BEAUTY CAN ENCACE CNW =| MY «WARY HEART: NY), THE. SUN, IN ALL HIS G PRIDE, AND RACE, WS BSS AD NOT THAT ART. ORIN SSSVAND YET HE SHINES AS BRIGHT AS YOU. IF BRIGHTNESS COULD OUR S0UL9 SUBDUE. ‘TIS NOT THE PRETTY THINGS YOU YAY, NOR THOSE YOU WAITE, WHICH CAN MAKE THYRII9’ HEART YOUR PREY: FOR THAT DELICHT, THE CRACE9 OF A WELL-TAUCHT MIND, IN SOME OF OUR OWN SEX WE FIND. 24 MBO, FLAVIA! ‘TIS YOUR A\ I? LOVE | FEAR; WW) LOVE'S SUREST DARTS, Aly, 2 THOSE WHICH DO 5LLDOM aS VWF AX FAIL HIM ARE HEADED WITH HEART; THEIR VERY SHADOWS MAKE U9 | YIELD: DISEMBLE WELL AND WIN THE FIELD: =I Wik od RSHILE | LISTEN To THY VOICE, CHLORI9! | FEEL MY LIFE DECAY: Seq THAT POW’RFUL }) & NOISE. eZ CALLD MY FLEETING 50UL AWAY. OH! SUPPRESS THAT MACIC J0UND, WHICH DESTROYS WITHOUT | A \WOUNDB. POLLY EAGLE, CHLORI, PLACES OR SINGING DIL; THAT TOGETHER 'YOU, AND TO HAVE MAY CO: FOR ALL WE KNOW OF WHAT THE BLESSED DO ABOVE THAT THEY SING, AND THAT THEY LOVE. O, LOVELY ROSE! TELL HER THAT WASTES HER TIME, AND ME, THAT NOW SHE KNOWS. WHEN I RESEMBLE HER TO THEE, HOW SWEET, & FAIR, SHE MUST BE. "KEEP ME THAT YOUNG, AND ZHUND TO HAVE HER CRACES THAT HADST THOU SPUNC IN DESERTS, WHERE NO MEN ABIDE, THOU MUST HAVE UNCOMMENDED OY'D. AS THE COMMON FATE OF ALL THINGS ARE: MAY READ IN THE LIGHT: HOW SMALL A PART OF TIME THEY SHARE THAT ARE 90 WOND'ROUS SWEET, AND FAIR! EDMUND WALLER & JA DECORATED BY PICKFORD WALLER AND PRINTED AT THE PEAR T. 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