StoryTitle("caps", "Of~a~Rose, a~Lovely~Rose, of~a~Rose Is~Al Myn~Song") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Lestenyt, lordynges, both elde and yinge,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "How this rose began to sprynge;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Swych a rose to myn lykynge", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "In al this word ne knowe I non.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The Aungil came fro hevene tour, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To grete Marye with gret honour,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And seyde sche xuld bere the flour", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "That xulde breke the fyndes bond.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The flour sprong in heye Bedlem,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "That is bothe bryht and schen: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The rose is Mary hevene qwyn,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Out of here bosum the blosme sprong.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The ferste braunche is ful of myht,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "That sprang on Cyrstemesse nyht,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The sterre schon over Bedlem bryht ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "That is bothe brod and long.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The secunde braunche sprong to helle,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The fendys power doun to felle:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Therein myht non sowle dwelle;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Blyssid be the time the rose sprong!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The thredde braunche is good and swote,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "It sprang to hevene crop and rote,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Therein to dwellyn and ben our bote;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Every day it schewit in prystes hond.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Prey we to here with gret honour, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Che that bar the blyssid flowr,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Che be our helpe and our socour", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "And schyd us fro the fyndes bond.", "") ?>
Poet("Anonymous", "c. 1350") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>