Children, keep up that harmless play: Your kindred angels plainly say By God's authority ye may. (LANDOR: _Children Playing in a Churchyard._ 1858.) Whoe'er she be, That not impossible She That shall command my heart and me; Where'er she lie, Lock'd up from mortal eye In shady leaves of destiny:... --Meet you her, my Wishes, Bespeak her to my blisses, And be ye call'd, my absent kisses. (CRASHAW: _Wishes for the Supposed Mistress._ 1646.) I said, "I toil beneath the curse, But, knowing not the universe, I fear to slide from bad to worse. "And that, in seeking to undo One riddle, and to find the true, I knit a hundred others new." (TENNYSON: _The Two Voices._ 1833.) Like the swell of some sweet tune, Morning rises into noon, May glides onward into June. (LONGFELLOW: _Maidenhood._ 1842.) Whenas in silks my Julia goes, Then, then (methinks) how sweetly flows That liquefaction of her clothes. (HERRICK: _To Julia._ 1648) The fear was on the cattle, for the gale was on the sea, An' the pens broke up on the lower deck an' let the creatures free-- An' the lights went out on the lower deck, an' no one down but me. (KIPLING: _Mulholland's Contract._) _Terza rima_ (_aba_, _bcb_, etc.). A spending hand that alway poureth out Had need to have a bringer in as fast; And on the stone that still doth turn about There groweth no moss. These proverbs yet do last: Reason hath set them in so sure a place, That length of years their force can never waste. When I remember this, and eke the case Wherein thou stand'st, I thought forthwith to write, Bryan, to thee. Who knows how great a grace,... (SIR THOMAS WYATT: _How to use the court and himself therein, written to Sir Francis Bryan._ ab. 1542.) The _terza rima_ is, strictly speaking, a scheme of continuous verse rather than a stanza, each tercet being united by the rime-scheme to the preceding. Its use in English has always been slight, and always due to conscious imitation of the Italian. No successful attempt has been made to use it for a long poem, as Dante did in the _Divina Commedia_. Wyatt's specimen is the earliest in English; he chose the form for his three satires imitating those of Alamanni. Once, O sweet once, I saw with dread oppressed Her whom I dread; so that with prostrate lying Her length the earth Love's chiefe clothing dressed. I saw that riches fall, and fell a crying:-- Let not dead earth enjoy so deare a cover, But decke therewith my soule for your sake dying; Lay all your feare upon your fearfull lover: Shine, eyes, on me, that both our lives be guarded: So I your sight, you shall your selves recover. (SIR PHILIP SIDNEY: _Thyrsis and Dorus_, in the _Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia_. ab. 1580.)