| William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Elizabethan Verse. 1907. | | | | Eidola | | By Samuel Daniel (1562–1619) |
| | | ARE they shadows that we see? | |
| And can shadows pleasure give? | |
| Pleasures only shadows be, | |
| Cast by bodies we conceive, | |
| And are made the things we deem | 5 |
| In those figures which they seem. | |
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| But these pleasures vanish fast | |
| Which by shadows are expressed: | |
| Pleasures are not, if they last, | |
| In their passing, is their best: | 10 |
| Glory is most bright and gay | |
| In a flash, and so away. | |
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| Feed apace then, greedy eyes, | |
| On the wonder you behold; | |
| Take it sudden as it flies, | 15 |
| Though you take it not to hold: | |
| When your eyes have done their part, | |
| Thought must length it in the heart. | | | | |
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