A Walk On The Beach Essay Research

one day i wrote her name upon the Beach

but came the waves and washed it away

again i wrote it with second hand

but came the tide, and made mt pains his prey

“vain man” said she, “that dost in assay

A mortal thing so to immortalize

For myself shall like to this decay

and also my name be wiped out likewise”

“not so,” Said I. “let baser things devise”

to die in dust, but you shall live by fame

My verse you virtues rare shall eternize

and in the heavens write your glorious name

Where whenas death shall all the world subdue

our love shall live, and later life renew