Stay, speedy Time, behold, before thou pass, From age to age what thou hast sought to see, One in whom all the excellencies be, In whom Heav'n looks itself as in a glass. Time, look thyself in this tralucent glass, And thy youth past in this pure mirror see, As the world's beauty in his infancy, What is was then, and thou before it was. Pass on, and to posterity tell this, Yet see thou tell but truly what hath been; Say to our nephews that thou once hast seen In perfect human shape all heav'nly bliss, And bid them mourn, nay more, despair with thee, That she is gone, her like again to see. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE VISION by GEORGE SANTAYANA TO A CASTILIAN SONG by SARA TEASDALE THE DESERTER['S MEDITATION] by JOHN PHILPOT CURRAN A BIRTHDAY by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI HYMN: 32. THE NATIVITY OF OUR LORD AND SAVIOUR JESUS CHRIST by CHRISTOPHER SMART IF WE KNEW; OR, BLESSINGS OF TO-DAY by MAY LOUISE RILEY SMITH |