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William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Elizabethan Verse. 1907.

Dawn

John Ford (1586–c. 1640)

FLY hence, shadows, that do keep

Watchful sorrows charmed in sleep!

Tho’ the eyes be overtaken,

Yet the heart doth ever waken

Thoughts chained up in busy snares

Of continual woes and cares:

Love and griefs are so exprest

As they rather sigh than rest.

Fly hence, shadows, that do keep

Watchful sorrows charmed in sleep.