Wednesday, July 6, 2011

My Picture Left in Scotland - Ben Jonson

My Picture Left in Scotland

I now think Love is rather deaf than blind,
          For else it could not be
                          That she
Whom I adore so much should so slight me
      And cast my love behind;
I'm sure my language to her was as sweet,
                    And every close did meet
             In sentence of as subtle feet,
                    As hath the youngest he
          That sits in shadow of Apollo's tree.

O, but my conscious fears
             That fly my thoughts between,
             Tell me that she hath seen
          My hundreds of gray hairs,
          Told seven and forty years,
       Read so much waist as she cannot embrace
       My mountain belly and my rocky face;
And all these through her eyes have stopped her ears.

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