StoryTitle("caps", "As~Ye~Came from~the~Holy~Land") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "As ye came from the holy land", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Of Walsinghame,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Met you not with my true love", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "By the way as you came?", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "How should I know your true love,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "That have met many a one", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "As I came from the holy land,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "That have come, that have gone?", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "She is neither white nor brown,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "But as the heavens fair; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "There is none hath her form divine", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "In the earth or the air.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Such a one did I meet, good sir,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Such an angelic face,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Who like a nymph, like a queen, did appear", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "In her gait, in her grace.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "She hath left me here alone", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "All alone, as unknown,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Who sometime did me lead with herself,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And me loved as her own. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "What's the cause that she leaves you alone", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And a new way doth take,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "That sometime did love you as her own,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And her joy did you make?", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I have loved her all my youth, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "But now am old, as you see:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Love likes not the falling fruit,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Nor the withered tree.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Know that Love is a careless child,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And forgets promise past:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "He is blind, he is deaf when he list,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And in faith never fast.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "His desire is a dureless content,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And a trustless joy;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "He is won with a world of despair,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And is lost with a toy.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Of womenkind such indeed is the love,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Or the word love abuséd,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Under which many childish desires", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And conceits are excuséd.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But true love is a durable fire,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "In the mind ever burning,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Never sick, never dead, never cold,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "From itself never turning.", "") ?>
Poet("Anonymous", "16th century") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>