William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Restoration Verse. 1910.
The RelapseThomas Stanley (16251678)
O
The stars of my undoing!
Or death, in such a bright disguise,
May tempt a second wooing.
Who dare contemn thy glory!
It was my fall that deified
Thy name, and seal’d thy story.
A higher praise to crown thee;
Though my first death proclaim thee fair.
My second will unthrone thee.
No other for thy fuel,
And if thou burn one victim twice,
Both think thee poor and cruel!