Calling to mind, since first my love begun, <br />Th'uncertain times oft varying in their course, <br />How things still unexpectedly have run, <br />As it please the Fates, by their resistless force. <br />Lastly mine eyes amazedly have seen <br />Essex' great fall, Tyrone his peace to gain; <br />The quiet end of that long-living Queen; <br />This King's fair entrance; and our peace with Spain, <br />We and the Dutch at length ourselves to sever. <br />Thus the world doth and evermore shall reel; <br />Yet to my Goddess am I constant ever, <br />Howe'er blind Fortune turn her giddy wheel. <br />Though Heav'n and Earth prove both to me untrue, <br />Yet am I still inviolate to you.<br /><br />Michael Drayton<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/sonnet-li-calling-to-mind/
