Who will believe my verse in time to come If it were filled with your most high deserts Though yet it is But as a tomb which hides your life and shows not Half your parts
If I could write the beauty of your eyes And in my verses number all your grace The age to come would say this poet lies Such a beauty never touched an earthly face
I'm eternally yours Eternally yours Dying with my time Forever in my song Eternally yours
Eternally yours
Eternally yours
So if my papers yellowed with their age Be scorned like old men of less truth than tongue And your true rights be termed a poet's rage In the stretched metre of an antique song
But were some child of yours alive that time You should live twice in it and in my rhyme A woman's face by nature's own hand drawn The master-mistress of my fervidness
I'm eternally yours Eternally yours Dying with my time Forever in my song
As an unperfect actor on the stage Or some fierce beast replete with too much rage So I, for fear of trust Forget to say the perfect ceremony of love's rite
Looking at darkness as blind people do Only my soul's imaginary sight Presents your shadow to my sightless view Just like a jewel hung in blackest night
I'm eternally yours Eternally yours Dying with my time Forever in my song Eternally yours
Eternally yours
Eternally yours
My mirror won't persuade me I am old As long as youth and you are of one date But when in you time's furrows I behold Then it is time to anticipate death
For all that beauty that does cover you Is but the seemly raiment of my heart Which in your breast does live as yours in me How can I then be older than you are
I'm eternally yours Dying with my time Forever in my song.Teksty umieszczone na naszej stronie są własnością wytwórni, wykonawców, osób mających do nich prawa.