The heart and service to you proffer'd <br />With right good will full honestly, <br />Refuse it not, since it is offer'd, <br />But take it to you gentlely. <br /> <br />And though it be a small present, <br />Yet good, consider graciously <br />The thought, the mind, and the intent <br />Of him that loves you faithfully. <br /> <br />It were a thing of small effect <br />To work my woe thus cruelly, <br />For my good will to be abject: <br />Therefore accept it lovingly. <br /> <br />Pain or travel, to run or ride, <br />I undertake it pleasantly; <br />Bid ye me go, and straight I glide <br />At your commandement humbly. <br /> <br />Pain or pleasure, now may you plant <br />Even which it please you steadfastly; <br />Do which you list, I shall not want <br />To be your servant secretly. <br /> <br />And since so much I do desire <br />To be your own assuredly, <br />For all my service and my hire <br />Reward your servant liberally.<br /><br />Sir Thomas Wyatt<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-heart-and-service/
