Samuel Daniel(1563–1619)
Sonnet 50
Let others sing of knights and paladins 0chivalric heroes
In aged accents, and untimely 0 words;outdated
Paint shadows in imaginary lines
Which well the reach of their high wits records;
But I must sing of thee, and those fair eyes
Authentic 0 shall my verse in time to come,authenticate
When yet th' unborn shall say, "Lo where she lies,
Whose beauty made him speak that else was dumb.
These are the arks, the trophies I erect,
That fortify thy name against old age;
And these thy sacred virtues must protect
Against the dark and time's consuming rage.
Though th' error of my youth they shall discover,
Suffice, they show I lived and was thy lover.