| Edward Farr, ed. Select Poetry of the Reign of King James the First. 1847. | | | | For Seasonable Weather | | XXXVIII. George Wither |
| | | LORD! should the sunne, the clowds, the winde, | |
| The ayre and seasons be | |
| To vs so froward unkind, | |
| As we are false to thee, | |
| All fruites would quite away be burn’d, | 5 |
| Or lye in water drown’d, | |
| Or blasted be, or ouerturn’d, | |
| Or chilled on the ground. | |
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| But from our duty though we swarue, | |
| Thou still dost mercy shew, | 10 |
| And daign thy creatures to preserue, | |
| That men might thankfull grow; | |
| Yet though from day to day we sinne, | |
| And thy displeasure gaine, | |
| No sooner we to cry beginne, | 15 |
| But pitty we obtaine. | |
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| The weather now thou changed hast | |
| That put vs late to feare, | |
| And when our hopes were almost past, | |
| Then comfort did appeare; | 20 |
| The heauen the earth’s complaints hath heard, | |
| They reconciled be, | |
| And thou such weather hast prepar’d | |
| As we desired of thee. | |
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| For which, with lifted hands and eyes, | 25 |
| To thee we doe repay | |
| The due and willing sacrifice | |
| Of giving thanks to-day; | |
| Because such offrings we should not | |
| To render thee be slowe, | 30 |
| Nor let thy mercie be forgot, | |
| Which thou art pleased to showe. | | | | |
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