Classic Poem

A Letter to L.L. at Co. after A yeares absence from each other

Shall friendship wayn becaus the world goes less
As age Creeps on't In shining faithfulness
Doe wee not see'the Moon decrease and then
Though but with borrowed light fill up againe
For still she hath a body Cannot bee
Deprivd of Created Entety
Noe more may Change in states unsteady sway
Unspheare true love; or make affeccions stray
Out of their Course as the good will of tymes
Befrend or not their must be waynes and primes
Distance to shew our sublynary state
Is lyable to Variations fate
All orbs though darkned doe the same remaine
Till opportunities cleer them againe
Soe prime of those to whom my aspects owe
Tribute of mutuall smiles by Thes pray know
I doe salut you under noe pretence
Save that from kindness takes its influence
And that you may the same you did still know mee
I rest
Your humble servant
Senza Nome.