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Michael Drayton - Sonnet XVII: Stay, Speedy Time
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To Time

Stay, speedy Time, behold, before thou pass, 
From age to age what thou hast sought to see, 
One in whom all the excellencies be, 
In whom Heav`n looks itself as in a glass. 
Time, look thyself in this translucent glass, 
And thy youth past in this pure mirror see, 
As the world`s beauty in his infancy, 
What is was then, and thou before it was. 
Pass on, and to posterity tell this, 
Yet see thou tell but truly what hath been; 
Say to our nephews that thou once hast seen 
In perfect human shape all heav`nly bliss, 
And bid them mourn, nay more, despair with thee, 
That she is gone, her like again to see.
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