The amorose songes, sonets, and elegies: of M. Alexander Craige, Scoto-Britane

To absent ERANTINA.

EVen as a man by darke that goes astray, Would faine behold and looke vnto the light: Or as a Pilgrem erring from the way, In wildsome wayes, would faine be set a right•• As Mariners in blacke and stormie night, O'reset with Seas, strange winds, and stormie raine Longs to behold the beames of Phaebus bright, That after storme, the calme may come againe: As he whom still the Iayler doth detaine In bondage close, of freedome would be glade: Right so shall I of presence be as faine, To see the Sainct for whom my sighs are shade, Light, wisshed way, calme, freedome, should not bee So sweete to them, as Presence vnto mee.