Sir Walter Raleigh (1554?–1618). Poems. 1892.
VIII.Farewell to the Court; before 1593
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And past return are all my dandled days,
My love misled, and fancy quite retired;
Of all which past, the sorrow only stays.
Have left me all alone in unknown ways,
My mind to woe, my life in fortune’s hand;
Of all which past, the sorrow only stays.
I only wail the wrong of death’s delays,
Whose sweet spring spent, whose summer well nigh done;
Of all which past, the sorrow only stays;
To haste me hence to find my fortune’s fold.