FAire proud now tell me why should faire be proud; <br />Sith all worlds glorie is but drosse vncleane: <br />and in the shade of death it selfe shall shroud, <br />how euer now thereof ye little weene. <br />That goodly Idoll now so gay beseene, <br />shall doffe her fleshes borowd fayre attyre: <br />and be forgot as it had neuer beene, <br />that many now much worship and admire. <br />Ne any then shall after it inquire, <br />ne any mention shall thereof remaine: <br />but what this verse, that neuer shall expyre, <br />shall to you purchas with her thankles paine. <br />Faire be no lenger proud of that shall perish, <br />but that which shal you make immortall, cherish.<br /><br />Edmund Spenser<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/sonnet-xxvii-2/
