Classic Poem

To CASTARA,

Where true happinesse abides.

Castara whisper in some dead mans eare,
This subtill quœre ; and hee'le point out where,
By answers negative, true joyes abide.
Hee'le say they flow not on th' uncertaine tide
Of greatnesse, they can no firme basis have,
Vpon the tripidation of a wave.
Nor lurke they in the caverns of the earth,
Whence all the wealthy minerals draw their birth,
To covetous man so fatall. Nor ith' grace
Love they to wanton of a brighter face,
For th' are above Times battery; and the light
Of beauty, ages cloud will soone benight.
 If among these Content, he thus doth prove,
 Hath no abode; where dwels it but in Love?

To CASTARA,

Where true happinesse abides.

Castara whisper in some dead mans eare,
This subtill quœre ; and hee'le point out where,
By answers negative, true joyes abide.
Hee'le say they flow not on th' uncertaine tide
Of greatnesse, they can no firme basis have,
Vpon the tripidation of a wave.
Nor lurke they in the caverns of the earth,
Whence all the wealthy minerals draw their birth,
To covetous man so fatall. Nor ith' grace
Love they to wanton of a brighter face,
For th' are above Times battery; and the light
Of beauty, ages cloud will soone benight.
 If among these Content, he thus doth prove,
 Hath no abode; where dwels it but in Love?