Dear, why should you command me to my rest <br />When now the night doth summon all to sleep? <br />Methinks this time becometh lovers best; <br />Night was ordain'd, together friends to keep; <br />How happy are all other living things <br />Which through the day disjoin by sev'ral flight, <br />The quiet ev'ning yet together brings, <br />And each returns unto his love at night. <br />O thou, that art so courteous else to all, <br />Why shouldst thou, Night, abuse me only thus, <br />That ev'ry creature to his kind dost call, <br />And yet 'tis thou dost only sever us? <br />Well could I wish it would be ever day, <br />If when night comes you bid me go away.<br /><br />Michael Drayton<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/sonnet-xxxvii-dear-why-should-you/
