Set me whereas the sun doth parch the green <br />Or where his beams do not dissolve the ice, <br />In temperate heat where he is felt and seen; <br />In presence prest of people, mad or wise; <br />Set me in high or yet in low degree, <br />In longest night or in the shortest day, <br />In clearest sky or where clouds thickest be, <br />In lusty youth or when my hairs are gray. <br />Set me in heaven, in earth, or else in hell; <br />In hill, or dale, or in the foaming flood; <br />Thrall or at large, alive whereso I dwell, <br />Sick or in health, in evil fame or good: <br />Hers will I be, and only with this thought <br />Content myself although my chance be nought.<br /><br />Henry Howard<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/set-me-whereas-the-sun-doth-parch-the-green/
