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| One day I wrote her name upon the sand But came the waves and washed it away Again I wrote it with a second hand But came the tide and made my pains his prey. "Vain man," said she, "that dost in vain essay A mortal thing so to immortalize For I myself shall like to this decay And eke my name be wiped out likewise." "Not so," quoth I, "let baser things devise To lie in dust, but you shall live by fame My verse your virtues rare shall eternize And in the heavens write your glorious name Where, whenas Death shall all the world subdue Our love shall live, and later life renew." by Edmund Spenser |
| One Day I Wrote Her Name |
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