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Calling to mind since first my love begun,Th' incertain times oft varying in their course,How things still unexpectedly have run,As t' please the fates by their resistless force:Lastly, mine eyes amazedly have seenEssex' great fall, Tyrone his peace to gain,The quiet end of that long-living Queen,This King's fair entrance, and our peace with Spain,We and the Dutch at length ourselves to sever:Thus the world doth and evermore shall reel.Yet to my goddess am I constant ever,Howe'er blind fortune turn her giddy wheel:Though heaven and earth prove both to me untrue,Yet am I still inviolate to you.

© Michael Drayton