Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. 1919. The Oxford Book of English Verse: 1250–1900.
Thomas Campion. 1567?1619171. Devotion ii
FOLLOW your saint, follow with accents sweet! | |
Haste you, sad notes, fall at her flying feet! | |
There, wrapt in cloud of sorrow, pity move, | |
And tell the ravisher of my soul I perish for her love: | |
But if she scorns my never-ceasing pain, | 5 |
Then burst with sighing in her sight, and ne’er return again! | |
All that I sung still to her praise did tend; | |
Still she was first, still she my songs did end; | |
Yet she my love and music both doth fly, | |
The music that her echo is and beauty’s sympathy: | 10 |
Then let my notes pursue her scornful flight! | |
It shall suffice that they were breathed and died for her delight. |