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Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904.

Sonnets after Astrophel, etc.

Conclusion: If floods of tears could cleanse my follies past

Anonymous

IF floods of tears could cleanse my follies past

And smokes of sighs might sacrifice for sin;

If groaning cries might salve my fault at last;

Or endless moan for error, pardon win:

Then would I cry, weep, sigh, and ever moan

Mine error, fault, sins, follies past and gone.

I see my hopes must wither in their bud,

I see my favours are no lasting flowers,

I see that words will breathe no better good

Than loss of time, and lightning but at hours.

Then when I see, then this I say therefore,

That favours, hopes and words can blind no more.