Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | Fidessa | Sonnet XXV. Compare me to Pygmalion with his Image sotted! | Bartholomew Griffin (d. 1602) |
| COMPARE me to PYGMALION with his Image sotted! | |
For (as was he) even so, am I deceived. | |
The shadow only is to me allotted, | |
The substance hath of substance me bereaved. | |
Then poor and helpless, must I wander still | 5 |
In deep laments to pass succeeding days, | |
Weltring in woes, that poor and mighty kill. | |
O who is mighty, that so soon decays! | |
The dread Almighty hath appointed so, | |
The final period of all worldly things. | 10 |
Then as in time they come, so must they go. | |
(Death common is to beggars and to kings) | |
For whither do I run beside my text? | |
I run to death, for death must be the next! | | | |
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