Silvia

Silvia

Poet: William Shakespeare

 WHO is Silvia? What is she?

   That all our swains commend her?

Holy, fair, and wise is she;

   The heaven such grace did lend her,

That she might admired be.

Is she kind as she is fair?

   For beauty lives with kindness:

Love doth to her eyes repair,

   To help him of his blindness;

And, being help'd, inhabits there.

Then to Silvia let us sing,

   That Silvia is excelling;

She excels each mortal thing

   Upon the dull earth dwelling:

To her let us garlands bring.