If this our little life is but a day <br />In the Eternal, - if the years in vain <br />Toil after hours that never come again, - <br />If everything that hath been must decay, <br />Why dreamest thou of joys that pass away, <br />My soul, that my sad body doth restrain? <br />Why of the moment’s pleasure art thou fain? <br />Nay, thou hast wings, - nay, seek another stay. <br /> <br />There is the joy whereto each soul aspires, <br />And there the rest that all the world desires, <br />And there is love, and peace, and gracious mirth; <br />And there in the most highest heavens shalt thou <br />Behold the Very Beauty, whereof now <br />Thou worshippest the shadow upon earth.<br /><br />Joachim du Bellay<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-sonnet-to-heavenly-beauty/
