Chidioch Tichborne (1558-1586)

On September the nineteenth 1586 in London Tower When the bloom of his young life was decaying like a flower Dying in the cool winds of the early Fall In words his tragic life he did recall. Chidioch Tichborne to something beautiful to gave life In his farewell elegy to Agnes his wife An elegy still read and popular today True greatness can be slow for to meet decay. Accused as being in a failed plot to murder Elizabeth England's Queen His best days as a poet he had not seen Hung drawn and quartered a brutal way to die Such a death to justice surely gives the lie. Executed in his twenty eight year even in those times that was young But he did not remain as one unsung His gift of life may have been snatched from him in his prime But his life story and his elegy have withstood the test of time.