| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Chloris | | Sonnet VII. What need I mourn? seeing Pan, our sacred King | | William Smith (fl. 1596) |
| | | WHAT need I mourn? seeing PAN, our sacred King, | |
| Was, of that Nymph, fair SYRINX coy, disdained. | |
| The World’s great Light, which comforteth each thing, | |
| All comfortless for DAPHNE’s sake remained. | |
| If gods can find no help to heal the sore | 5 |
| Made by LOVE’s shafts, which pointed are with fire; | |
| Unhappy CORIN, then thy chance deplore! | |
| Since they despair by wanting their desire. | |
| I am not PAN, though I a shepherd be; | |
| Yet is my Love as fair as SYRINX was. | 10 |
| My Song cannot with PHŒBUS’s tunes agree; | |
| Yet CHLORIS doth his DAPHNE far surpass. | |
| How much more fair, by so much more unkind | |
| Than SYRINX coy, or DAPHNE, I her find. | | | | |
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