| William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Elizabethan Verse. 1907. | | | | Let Others Sing of Knights and Paladines | | By Samuel Daniel (1562–1619) |
| | | LET others sing of Knights and Paladines, | |
| In agèd accents and untimely words, | |
| Paint shadows in imaginary lines, | |
| Which well the reach of their high wit records. | |
| But I must sing of thee, and those fair eyes | 5 |
| 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 arcs, the trophies I erect, | |
| That fortify thy name against old age; | 10 |
| And these thy sacred virtues must protect | |
| Against the Dark, and Time’s consuming rage. | |
| Though th’ error of my youth in them appear, | |
| Suffice, they show I lived, and loved thee dear. | | | | |
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