SUCH days as wear the badge of holy red Are for devotion marked and sage delight: The vulgar low-days, undistinguished, Are left for labour, games, and sportful sights. This several and so differing use of time, Within th' enclosure of one week we find; Which I resemble in my Notes and Rhyme, Expressing both in their peculiar kind. Pure Hymns, such as the Seventh Day loves, do lead; Grave age did justly challenge those of me: These weekday works, in order that succeed, Your youth best fits; and yours, young Lord, they be, As he is who to them their being gave: If th' one, the other you of force must have. |