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Like truthless dreams, so are my joys expir'd,
And past return are all my dandled days;
My
love misled, and fancy quite retir'd
Of all which pass'd the sorrow only stays.
My lost delights, now
clean from sight of land,
Have left me all alone in unknown ways;
My mind to woe, my life in fortune's hand
Of
all which pass'd the sorrow only stays.
As in a country strange, without companion,
I only wail the
wrong of death's delays,
Whose sweet spring spent, whose summer well-nigh done
Of all which pass'd only
the sorrow stays.
Whom care forewarns, ere age and winter cold,
To haste me hence to find my fortune's
fold.
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