The amorose songes, sonets, and elegies: of M. Alexander Craige, Scoto-Britane
Craig, Alexander, 1567?-1627.
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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.
