One Day I Wrote Her Name Upon the Strand
One day I wrote her name upon the strand, But came the waves and washed it away: Again I wrote it with a second hand, But came the tide, and made my pains his prey. Vain man, said she, that dost in vain assay A mortal thing so to immortalize! For I myself shall like to this decay, And eek my name be wiped out likewise. Not so (quoth I), let baser things devise To die in dust, but you shall live by fame: My verse your virtues rare shall eternize, And in the heavens write your glorious name; Where, whenas death shall all the world subdue, Our love shall live, and later life renew.
Edmund Spence
Edmund Spenser was born circa 1552, and educated in London at the Merchant Taylor's School. Spenser's first poem that created notoriety for him was a collection of eclogues titled "The Sheepherders Calendar".
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