| William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Elizabethan Verse. 1907. | | | | Sweet Soul, Which in the April of Thy Years | | By William Drummond of Hawthornden (1585–1649) |
| | | SWEET soul, which in the April of thy years | |
| So to enrich the heaven mad’st poor this round, | |
| And now, with golden rays of glory crowned, | |
| Most blest abid’st above the spheres of spheres; | |
| If heavenly laws, alas! have not thee bound | 5 |
| From looking to this globe that all up-bears, | |
| If ruth and pity there above be found, | |
| O deign to lend a look unto these tears. | |
| Do not disdain, dear ghost, this sacrifice; | |
| And though I raise not pillars to thy praise, | 10 |
| My offerings take. Let this for me suffice: | |
| My heart, a living pyramid, I raise; | |
| And whilst kings’ tombs with laurels flourish green, | |
| Thine shall with myrtles and these flowers be seen. | | | | |
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