Original - Duke Divinity School

Yet tho’ I alter, This remains the same
As It was drawn, retains the primitive 73 Frame,
And first Complexion: Here will still be seen
Blood on the Cheek, and Down upon the Chin.
Here the smooth Brow will stay, the lively Eye,
The ruddy Lip, and Hair of youthful Die.
Behold, what Frailty we in Man may see.
Whose Shadow is less given to Change then He!
[p.] 66 Thirsis & Lalage 74
[Th.] My Lalage when I behold
So Great a Cold.
And not a Spark of Heat in Thy Desire,
I wonder what strange power of Thine,
Kindles in Mine
So bright a Flame, and such a burning Fire,
Lal. Can Thirsis in Philosophy
A Truant be,
And not have learn’d the power of the Sun;
How he to sublunary Things
A Fervour brings,
And yet himself is subject unto None?
Th. But why within Thy Eyes appear
Never a Tear.
That cause from mine perpetual Showers to fall?
Lal. Fool ’tis Fire’s Property, 75 you know
73 AM: “ancient.”
74 Randolph, “A Dialogue: Thirsis – Lalage,” Poems, 66–67.
75 Ori.: “the power of fire.”
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