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TO MY YOUNG LADY LUCY SIDNEY, by                 Poet Analysis     Poet's Biography
First Line: Why came I so untimely forth
Last Line: All that was promised by the spring.
Variant Title(s): To A Very Young Lady


WHY came I so untimely forth
Into a world which, wanting thee,
Could entertain us with no worth,
Or shadow of felicity?
That time should me so far remove
From that which I was born to love.

Yet, fairest Blossom! do not slight
That eye which you may know so soon;
The rosy morn resigns her light
And milder splendours to the noon:
If such thy dawning beauty's power
Who shall abide its noon-tide hour?

Hope waits upon the flowery prime;
And summer though it be less gay,
Yet is not looked on as a time
Of declination or decay;
For with a full hand she doth bring
All that was promised by the spring.





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