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Michael Drayton - Sonnet XIII: Letters and Lines
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To the Shadow

Letters and lines we see are soon defac`d, 
Metals do waste and fret with canker`s rust, 
The diamond shall once consume to dust, 
And freshest colors with foul stains disgrac`d; 
Paper and ink can paint but naked words, 
To write with blood of force offends the sight; 
And if with tears I find them all too light, 
And sighs and signs a silly hope affotds, 
O sweetest shadow, how thou serv`st my turn, 
Which still shalt be, as long as there is sun, 
Nor, whilst the world is, never shalt be done, 
Whilst moon shall shine or any fire shall burn; 
That everything whence shadow doth proceed 
May in my shadow my love`s story read.
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