08.01.2011, 11:43
STIRLING, WILLIAM ALEXANDER, Earl of
1567 - 1640 Schottland / Canada
Awake my muse and leave to dreame of loves,
Shake off soft fancies chaines, I must be free,
Ile perch no more upon the mirtle tree,
Nor glide through th'aire with beauties sacred doves;
But with Joves stately bird Ile leave my nest,
And trie my sight against Apolloes raies:
Then if that ought my ventrous course dismaies,
Upon the olives boughes Ile light and rest:
Ile tune my accents to a trumpet now,
And seeke the laurell in another field.
Thus I that once, as beautie meanes did yeeld,
Did divers garments on my thoughts bestow,
Like Icarus I feare, unwisely bold,
Am purpos'd others pasions now t'unfold.
1567 - 1640 Schottland / Canada
Awake my muse and leave to dreame of loves,
Shake off soft fancies chaines, I must be free,
Ile perch no more upon the mirtle tree,
Nor glide through th'aire with beauties sacred doves;
But with Joves stately bird Ile leave my nest,
And trie my sight against Apolloes raies:
Then if that ought my ventrous course dismaies,
Upon the olives boughes Ile light and rest:
Ile tune my accents to a trumpet now,
And seeke the laurell in another field.
Thus I that once, as beautie meanes did yeeld,
Did divers garments on my thoughts bestow,
Like Icarus I feare, unwisely bold,
Am purpos'd others pasions now t'unfold.