O
Sorrow, wilt thou rule my blood,
Be sometimes lovely like a bride,
And put thy harsher moods aside,
If
thou wilt have me wise and good.
My
centred passion cannot move,
Nor will it lessen from to-day;
But I’ll have leave at times to play
As
with the creature of my love;
And
set thee forth, for thou art mine,
With so much hope for years to come,
That, howsoe’er I know thee, some
Could
hardly tell what name were thine.