Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. 1919. The Oxford Book of English Verse: 1250–1900.
John Fletcher. 15791625215. Beauty Clear and Fair
BEAUTY clear and fair, | |
Where the air | |
Rather like a perfume dwells; | |
Where the violet and the rose | |
Their blue veins and blush disclose, | 5 |
And come to honour nothing else: | |
Where to live near | |
And planted there | |
Is to live, and still live new; | |
Where to gain a favour is | 10 |
More than light, perpetual bliss— | |
Make me live by serving you! | |
Dear, again back recall | |
To this light, | |
A stranger to himself and all! | 15 |
Both the wonder and the story | |
Shall be yours, and eke the glory; | |
I am your servant, and your thrall. |