Edmund Spenser - One day I wrote her name upon the strand, But...

One day I wrote her name upon the strand, But came the waves and washÃ¨d it away: Again I wrote it with a second hand, But came the tide and made my pains his prey. Vain man (said she) that dost in vain assayA mortal thing so to immortalise; For I myself shall like to this decay, And eke my name be wipÃ¨d out likewise. Not so (quod I); let baser things deviseTo die in dust, but you shall live by fame; My verse your virtues rare shall eternise, And in the heavens write your glorious name: Where, when as Death shall all the world subdue, Our love shall live, and later life renew.

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One day I wrote her name upon the strand, But came the waves and washÃ¨d it away: Again I wrote it with a second hand, But came the tide and made my pains his prey. Vain man (said she) that dost in vain assayA mortal thing so to immortalise; For I myself shall like to this decay, And eke my name be wipÃ¨d out likewise. Not so (quod I); let baser things deviseTo die in dust, but you shall live by fame; My verse your virtues rare shall eternise, And in the heavens write your glorious name: Where, when as Death shall all the world subdue, Our love shall live, and later life renew. Edmund Spenser

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