Canzon 9. When as the Golden Waggoner had frayed

Anonymous

WHEN as the Golden Waggoner had frayed

Black Winter’s outrage, with his brighter shine;

And that in Mansion of the Twins he styed,

His team; then ’gan my heart to twine with thine!

Even when his gorgeous mantle he had spread,

Wherewith he wiped wept-tears from TELLUS’ bosom;

Wantoning here with her, leaves THETIS’ bed,

Like dainty midwife FLORA, to unwomb

Sweet babes of TELLUS and HYPERION,

When ye full soomed in Winter’s mew doon mooting,

O then, the seeds of Love, by thine eyes sown,

Down through mine eyes, within mine heart took rooting.

This difference left ’twixt me and Nature’s store;

Her Spring returns! My flower may spread no more!