| William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Elizabethan Verse. 1907. | | | | A Miracle | | Anonymous |
| | | BEHOLD 1 a wonder here! | |
| Love hath received his sight! | |
| Which many hundred year | |
| Hath not beheld the light. | |
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| Such beams infusèd be | 5 |
| By Cynthia in his eyes, | |
| As first have made him see, | |
| And then have made him wise. | |
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| Love now no more will weep | |
| For them that laugh the while! | 10 |
| Nor wake for them that sleep, | |
| Nor sigh for them that smile! | |
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| So powerful is the Beauty | |
| That Love doth now behold, | |
| As Love is turned to Duty | 15 |
| That’s neither blind nor bold. | |
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| Thus Beauty shows her might | |
| To be of double kind; | |
| In giving Love his sight | |
| And striking Folly blind. | 20 |
| | | Note 1. From John Dowland’s Third and Last Book of Songs and Airs, 1603. [back] | | |
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