| William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Elizabethan Verse. 1907. | | | | Thou May’st Repent | | By Samuel Daniel (1562–1619) |
| | | WHEN men shall find thy flow’r, thy glory, pass, | |
| And thou with careful brow, sitting alone, | |
| Receivèd hast this message from thy glass, | |
| That tells the truth and says that All is gone; | |
| Fresh shalt thou see in me the wounds thou mad’st, | 5 |
| Though spent thy flame, in me the heat remaining: | |
| I that have loved thee thus before thou fad’st— | |
| My faith shall wax, when thou art in thy waning. | |
| The world shall find this miracle in me, | |
| That fire can burn when all the matter’s spent: | 10 |
| Then what my faith hath been thyself shalt see, | |
| And that thou wast unkind thou may’st repent.— | |
| Thou may’st repent that thou hast scorned my tears, | |
| When Winter snows upon thy sable hairs. | | | | |
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