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, though 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 should'st 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/idea-xxxvii-dear-why-should-you-command-me-to-my/
