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First Line: Let others sing of knights and paladines
Last Line: Suffice, they show I lived and was thy lover.
Variant Title(s): "beauty, Time And Love (7);to Delia: 50;""let Others Sing Knights And Palladines"";
Subject(s): Love


Let others sing of knights and paladins
In aged accents of untimely words,
Paint shadows in imaginary lines
Which well the reach of their high wits records;
But I must sing of thee and those fair eyes.
Authentic shall my verse in time to come,
When yet th' unborn shall say, "Lo where she lies,
Whose beauty made him speak that else was dumb."
These are the arks, the trophies I erect,
That fortify thy name against old age;
And these thy sacred virtues must protect
Against the dark and time's consuming rage.
Though th' error of my youth they shall discover,
Suffice, they show I lived and was thy lover.




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