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Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904.

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Sonnet XXXVII. When Winter snows upon thy golden hairs

Samuel Daniel (1562–1619)

WHEN Winter snows upon thy golden hairs,

And frost of Age hath nipped thy flowers near;

When dark shall seem thy day, that never clears,

And all lies withered that was held so dear:

Then take this picture, which I here present thee!

Limned with a pencil, not all unworthy,

Here, see the gifts that GOD and Nature lent thee!

Here, read thy Self! and what I suffered for thee!

This may remain thy lasting monument,

Which, happily, posterity may cherish:

These colours, with thy fading, are not spent;

These may remain, when thou and I shall perish.

If they remain, then thou shalt live thereby!

They will remain, and so thou canst not die!