Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904.
LauraPart IXXVI. When you appear, appears the Break of Day
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And shews to be most fair and passing bright:
But if you keep yourself unseen away,
The Day shows not; but keepeth out of sight.
Then if again you ’gin yourself to show;
Behold the Day to shew itself afresh
With sky most clear. So both of you do grow
In beauty like: in heat nor are you less.
Thus if your beams you ope, or hidden been:
The Break of Day appears; else ne’er is seen.