WALTONIANA. 



On a Portrait (9/^ Donne taken in his 

 eighteenth year. 



HIS was for youth, Strength, Mirth, and 

 wit that Time 

 Moft count their golden Age ; but 

 t'was not thine. 

 Thine was thy later yeares, fo much refind 

 From youths DrofTe, Mirth & wit; as thy pure 



mind 

 Thought (like the Angels) nothing but the Praife 

 Of thy Creator, in thofe laft, beft Dayes. 



Witnesthis Booke, (thy Embleme) which begins 

 With Love ; but endes, with Sighes, & Teares 

 for fiiis. 



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