Classic Poem

upon Castaries and her sisters goinge Afoote in the Snow

The Heauens knowinge that the tedious way
Did rauish ease from fayre Castara: lay
Their sentence on the Earth, and thinke it meete
It should doe pennance in a snow-white sheete
As it hath done this morninge: for the last
Enameld at your sights did sparkles cast
Like hardest diamonds, and were proud to bee
A pauement for your brightest eyes to see.
This is my feare, least like faire phoebus Rays
Your eyes might melt the snow, and make wett ways.

upon Castaries and her sisters goinge Afoote in the Snow

The Heauens knowinge that the tedious way
Did rauish ease from fayre Castara: lay
Their sentence on the Earth, and thinke it meete
It should doe pennance in a snow-white sheete
As it hath done this morninge: for the last
Enameld at your sights did sparkles cast
Like hardest diamonds, and were proud to bee
A pauement for your brightest eyes to see.
This is my feare, least like faire phoebus Rays
Your eyes might melt the snow, and make wett ways.