Ballads and lyrics . £air she seems to be. Tell her that s voungrAnd shuns to have her graces spied, That hadst thou sprungIn deserts, where no men abide,Thou must have uncommended died. Small is the worthOf beauty from the light retired: Bid her come forth,Suffer herself to be not blush so to be admired. Then die! that sheThe common fate of all thinors rare May read in thee:How small a part of time they shareThat are so wondrous sweet and fair! Edmund Waller.^ 1 Edmund Waller was born in 1605. He was of good fam-ily, a connoction of both John Hampden and Oliver Cromwell,nnd was a
Ballads and lyrics . £air she seems to be. Tell her that s voungrAnd shuns to have her graces spied, That hadst thou sprungIn deserts, where no men abide,Thou must have uncommended died. Small is the worthOf beauty from the light retired: Bid her come forth,Suffer herself to be not blush so to be admired. Then die! that sheThe common fate of all thinors rare May read in thee:How small a part of time they shareThat are so wondrous sweet and fair! Edmund Waller.^ 1 Edmund Waller was born in 1605. He was of good fam-ily, a connoction of both John Hampden and Oliver Cromwell,nnd was a man of property. He was educated at Eton and Cam-bridge, entered Parliament in 1621, and. with occasional inter-vals, continued there through life, being elected the last time in1685, as member for Saltash in the only Parliament of JamesII. In 1643 he was discovered in a plot against the Long Par-liament, made abject submission, was fined £10,000, and forcedinto exile. He returned in 1653, and made terms with Crom-. Go, lovely Rose. See p. 42. I TLL NEVER LOVE THEE MORE: 43 ILL NEVER LOVE THEE MORE/I. My dear and only love, I pray-That little world of thee Be governed by no other swayThan purest monarchy; For if confusion have a part,Which virtuous souls abhor, And hold a synod in thine heart,I 11 never love thee more. II. As Alexander I will reign. And I will reign alone;My thoughts did evermore disdain A rival on my either fears his fate too much, Or his deserts are small,That dares not put it to the touch, To gain or lose it all. III. But I will reign and govern still, And always give the have each subject at my will, And all to stand in awe;But gainst my batteries if I find Thou kick, or vex me that thou set me up a blind, I 11 never love thee more. well, by whom he was protected. On the Restoration he againchanged sides, and made his peace with Charles II., duringwhose reign he continued to flourish. He died in 1G87. As apolitician he was sharp,
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