If, when the story of my love is old
If, when the story of my love is old,
This book should live and lover's leisure feed,
Fair charactered, for bluest eye to read,
And richly bound, for whitest hand to hold, —
O limn me then this lovely head in gold,
And, limner, the soft lips and lashes heed,
And set her in the midst, my love indeed,
The sweet eyes tender, and the broad brow cold.
And never let thy colours think to cast
A brighter splendour on her beauties past,
Or venture to disguise a fancied flaw;
Let not thy painting falsify my rhyme,
This book should live and lover's leisure feed,
Fair charactered, for bluest eye to read,
And richly bound, for whitest hand to hold, —
O limn me then this lovely head in gold,
And, limner, the soft lips and lashes heed,
And set her in the midst, my love indeed,
The sweet eyes tender, and the broad brow cold.
And never let thy colours think to cast
A brighter splendour on her beauties past,
Or venture to disguise a fancied flaw;
Let not thy painting falsify my rhyme,
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