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SIR WALTER RALEIGH (?) in
MS. Rawl. 85, fol.124, date
uncertain.




PILGRIM TO PILGRIM.

As you came from the holy land
    Of Walsinghame,
Met you not with my true love
    By the way as you came ?

How shall I know your true love,
    That have met many one,
As I went to the holy land,
    That have come, that have gone ?

She is neither white nor brown,
    But as the heavens fair ;
There is none hath a form so divine
    In the earth or the air.

Such a one did I meet, good sir,
    Such an angel-like face,
Who like a queen, like a nymph, did appear,
    By her gait, by her grace.

She hath left me here all alone,
    All alone, as unknown,
Who sometimes did me lead with herself,
    And me loved as her own.

What's the cause that she leaves you alone,
    And a new way doth take,
Who loved you once as her own,
    And her joy did you make ?

I have loved her all my youth,
    But now old, as you see,
Love likes not the falling fruit
    From the withered tree.

Know that Love is a careless child,
    And forgets promise past ;
He is blind, he is deaf when he list,
    And in faith never fast.

His desire is a dureless content,
    And a trustless joy ;
He is won with a world of despair,
    And is lost with a toy.

Of womankind such indeed is the love,
    Or the word love abusèd,
Under which many childish desires
    And conceits are excusèd.

But true love is a durable fire,
    In the mind ever burning,
Never sick, never old, never dead,
    From itself never turning.






Schelling, Felix E., Ed. A Book of Elizabethan Lyrics.
Boston: Ginn and Company, 1895. 3-4.



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