Calling to mind since first my love begun, <br /> Th' incertain times oft varying in their course, <br /> How things still unexpectedly have run, <br /> As t' 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 heaven 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/idea-li-calling-to-mind-since-first-my-love-begu/
