| Hunt and Lee, comps. The Book of the Sonnet. 1867. | | | | IV. Recollections of His Lost Bride | | By William Drummond, of Hawthornden (1585–1649) |
| | | ALEXIS, 1 here she stayed; among these pines, | |
| Sweet hermitress, she did alone repair; | |
| Here did she spread the treasure of her hair, | |
| More rich than that brought from the Colchian mines; | |
| She set her by these muskéd eglantines,— | 5 |
| The happy place the print seems yet to bear;— | |
| Her voice did sweeten here thy sugared lines, | |
| To which winds, trees, beasts, birds, did lend an ear; | |
| Me here she first perceived, and here a morn | |
| Of bright carnations did o’erspread her face; | 10 |
| Here did she sigh, here first my hopes were born, | |
| And first I got a pledge of promised grace; | |
| But ah! what served it to be happy so, | |
| Sith 2 passéd pleasures double but new woe. | |
| | | Note 1. This name appears to have been intended for that of his friend William Alexander, Earl of Sterling. [back] | | Note 2. since. [back] | | |
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