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One day I
wrote her name vpon the strand,
but came the waues
and washed it away:
agayne I wrote it with a second
hand,
but came the tyde, and made my paynes his
pray.
Vayne man, sayd she, that doest in vaine
assay,
a mortall thing so to immortalize,
for I
my selue shall lyke to this decay,
and eek my name
bee wyped out lykewize.
Not so, (quod I) let baser
things deuize
to dy in dust, but you shall liue by
fame:
my verse your vertues rare shall eternize,
and in the heuens wryte your glorious name.
Where
whenas death shall all the world subdew,
our loue
shall liue, and later life renew.
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