One Arrow Poised

Transience

 

1          One arrow poised, on ash wood bent,

2          Did cupid drow and onward send,

3          And hit me as arrows argued meant,

4          To wound me that which love attends.

5          But alas no love attends my wound,

6          Nor hope recourse the dire gloom:

7          That none but death in deadly stature rent

8          A heal to wounds in despair spent.

9          This naturally sorrow nothing give

10        But able choice to die, to live:

11                    To live is death, and death to breathe,

12                    So love unloved doth give me leave.

 

 

 

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