William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Restoration Verse. 1910.
Song: How prodigious is my fateKatherine Philips (Orinda) (16321664)
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Since I can’t determine clearly,
Whether you’ll do more severely
Giving me your love or hate!
For if you with kindness bless me,
Since from you I soon must part;
Fortune will so dispossess me,
That your love will break my heart.
Might I choose my way of dying,
I could wish the arrow flying
From Fortune’s quiver, not from yours.
For in the sad unusual story
How my wretched heart was torn,
It will more concern your glory,
I by absence fell than scorn.