| When to the sessions of sweet silent thought, | |
| I summon up remembrance of things past, | |
| I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought, | |
| And with old woes new wail my dear time's waste: | |
| Then can I drown an eye (unused to flow) | 5 |
| For precious friends hid in death's dateless night, | |
| And weep afresh love's long since cancelled woe, | |
| And moan th' expense of many a vanished sight. | |
| Then can I grieve at grievances foregone, | |
| And heavily from woe to woe tell o'er | 10 |
| The sad account of fore-bemoaned moan, | |
| Which I new pay as if not paid before. | |
| But if the while I think on thee (dear friend) | |
| All losses are restored, and sorrows end. | |