| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Sonnets after Astrophel, etc. | | Sonnet XXIII. My years draw on my everlasting night | | Samuel Daniel (1562–1619) |
| | [Not reprinted in Delia, Daniel’s authorised collection, 1594.] |
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MY years 1 draw on my everlasting night, | |
| And HORROR’s sable clouds dim my life’s sun; | |
| That my life’s sun, and Thou my worldly light | |
| Shall rise no more to me. My days are done! | |
| I’ll go before unto the myrtle shades, | 5 |
| To attend the presence of my world’s dear: | |
| And dress a bed of flowers that never fade, | |
| And all things fit against her coming there. | |
| If any ask, “Why that so soon I came?” | |
| I’ll hide her fault, and say “It was my lot.” | 10 |
| In life and death I’ll tender her good name; | |
| My life and death shall never be her blot. | |
| Although the world this deed of hers may blame; | |
| The Elysian ghosts shall never know the same. | |
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