William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Restoration Verse. 1910.
Song: ‘Phillis, for shame, let us improve’Charles Sackville, Earl of Dorset (1638–1706)
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A thousand different ways
Those few short moments snatched by love
From many tedious days.
The censure of the grave,
Though love’s a tyrant in your eyes
Your heart is but a slave.
Nor can it e’er submit
To let that fop, Discretion, ride
In triumph over it.
Who daily counsel me
Fame and ambition to pursue,
And leave off loving thee.
To fools who thus advise,
May I be dull enough to grow
Most miserably wise.