To a Friend Who Threw Away Hair Dyes

Surely history’s seen a happy ruler!
Tell me the long wait that breaks the pride
and will, yet may end in mastery, is not vain,
that Time may love and take for royal bride
his humblest servant, and in exchange I’ll tell you
that the heart’s multitudes lower their eyes and bow down
at their first sight on the balcony of a beautiful,
brilliant head wearing its first cold crown.