ENG 111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Edmund Spenser
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One day i wrote her name upon the strand, But came the waves and washed it away: Again i write it with a second hand, But came the tide, and made my pains his prey. it is her name, her maiden name before she was married. As a second hand is a second hand on a clock. Time makes him aware of death and sorrow. Vain man, said she, that doest in vain assay, For i myself shall like to this decay, And eek my name be wiped out likewise. Not so, (quod i) let baser things devise. To die in dust, but you shall live by fame: And in the heavens write your glorious name. The physical body dies, but your spirit remains. Where whenas death shall all the world subdue, Our love shall live, and later life renew. bourgoisie. (1594) I will not make your name eternal, i will make your virtues immortal.
