Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, IDEA'S MIRROR: 38, by MICHAEL DRAYTON


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First Line: If chaste and pure devotion of my youth
Last Line: Yet, fair unkind, too good to be disgraced.


If chaste and pure devotion of my youth
Or glory of my April-springing years,
Unfeignéd love in naked simple truth,
A thousand vows, a thousand sighs and tears;
Or if a world of faithful service done,
Words, thoughts and deeds devoted to her honour,
Or eyes that have beheld her as their sun,
With admiration ever looking on her;
A life that never joyed but in her love,
A soul that ever hath adored her name,
A faith that time nor fortune could not move.
A Muse that unto heaven hath raised her fame:
Though these, nor these, deserve to be embraced,
Yet, fair unkind, too good to be disgraced.





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