Fair Faces
O' look in times how beauty wast defined!
And still defined' is it by faces fair
See how the white, well-painted and divine
Seekst not the color white, but only dare
To be in marriage bound to fairest white
And colored are, by due of likeness seek
To be well-saved by colored faces night
And only choose the best accordant sweet
Thus all the colors in their faces live
And so they love, and so they shall be loved
But all discordant faces bare and dimm'd
Are left, bereaved and destined not to love
Or else, be joined are they by likeness fit
To add themselves, what was by time bereft
T'may that which is not matched to lightness lit
And 'spire be, as well in ranks be held
O' hail'd they shall, the fairest faces made
And cheriched are for all the beauty shown
Praised be their hearts, if darkness they inhale
And those who true love hold, their hearts disowned
This life ere now, unfair to all unfair
Cannot defy, for is thus writ and born
Proud faces sought, by less of beauty snare
And only join those like their share and more
But We alone, no beauty's bounty taste
Not meant to live, nor die as long time haste
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