Poesias
Poesias Number there in love was slain.
Hearts remote yet not asunder,
Distance and no space was seen
’Twixt this turtle and his queen.
But in them it were a wonder.
So between them love did shine
That the turtle saw his right
Flaming in the Phoenix’ sight.
Either was the other’s mine.
Property was thus appalled
That the self was not the same.
Single nature’s double name
Neither two nor one was called.
Reason, in itself confounded,
Saw division grow together
To themselves, yet either neither,
Simple were so well compounded
That it cried ‘How true a twain
Seemeth this concordant one!
Love hath reason, reason none,
If what parts can so remain.’
Whereupon it made this threne
To the phoenix and the dove,
Co-supremes and stars of love,
As chorus to their tragic scene.
THRENOS
Beauty, truth, and rarity,