| William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Elizabethan Verse. 1907. | | | | Sic Transit | | By Thomas Campion (1567–1620) |
| | | COME, cheerful day, part of my life to me; | |
| For while thou view’st me with thy fading light, | |
| Part of my life doth still depart with thee, | |
| And I still onward haste to my last night: | |
| Time’s fatal wings do ever forward fly, | 5 |
| So every day we live a day we die. | |
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| But, O ye nights, ordained for barren rest, | |
| How are my days deprived of life in you, | |
| When heavy sleep my soul hath dispossest, | |
| By feignèd death life sweetly to renew! | 10 |
| Part of my life in that, you life deny: | |
| So every day we live a day we die. | | | | |
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