“O leave that love which reachest but to dust,

And in that love eternal only trust,

And beauty, which, when once it is possest,

Can only fill the soul, and make it blest.

Pale envy, jealous emulations, fears,

Sighs, plaints, remorse, here have no place, nor tears;

False joys, vain hopes, here be not, hate nor wrath;

What ends all love, here most augments it, death.

If such force had the dim glance of an eye,

Which some few days thereafter was to die,