XXVI. When you appear, appears the Break of Day

Robert Tofte (1561–1620)

WHEN you appear, appears the Break of Day;

And shews to be most fair and passing bright:

But if you keep yourself unseen away,

The Day shows not; but keepeth out of sight.

Then if again you ’gin yourself to show;

Behold the Day to shew itself afresh

With sky most clear. So both of you do grow

In beauty like: in heat nor are you less.

Thus if your beams you ope, or hidden been:

The Break of Day appears; else ne’er is seen.