Let others sing of Knights and Paladins <br />In aged accents and untimely words, <br />Paint shadows in imaginary lines <br />Which well the reach of their high wits records; <br />But I must sing of thee and those fair eyes; <br />Authentic shall my verse in time to come, <br />When yet th'unborn shall say, "Lo, where she lies <br />Whose beauty made him speak that else was dumb." <br />These are the Arks, the Trophies I erect <br />That fortify thy name against old age, <br />And these thy sacred virtues must protect <br />Against the dark and Time's consuming rage. <br />Though th'error of my youth they shall discover, <br />Suffice they show I liv'd and was thy lover.<br /><br />Samuel Daniel<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/sonnet-lv-let-others-sing/
