Sonnet + 

Be Not Cast Down My Heart, and Be Not Sad + 

Be not cast down my heart, and be not sad, + 

That thou like common men must sorrow know; + 

Not only they that live and die below, + 

But ev’n the gods thy supreme sorrow had; + 

Not unto Tammuz was this fortune given, + 

Not to know grief; whom starry Ashtoreth + 

Sought through the seven-gated realm of death, + 

Far from the great moon and the stars of heaven. + 

Osiris also could not but to die; + 

He reigneth king among the perisht dead; + 

And Christ, when his long grief was finished, + 

Hid his great glory in the lowly ground. + 

All these had sorrow, that were great and high; + 

These also were august, these also crown’d. + 