StoryTitle("caps", "A~Lover's~Lullaby") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Sing lullaby, as women do,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Wherewith they bring their babes to rest;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And lullaby can I sing too,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "As womanly as can the best.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "With lullaby they still the child;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And if I be not much beguiled,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Full many a wanton babe have I,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Which must be still'd with lullaby.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "First lullaby my youthful years,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "It is now time to go to bed:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "For crookéd age and hoary hairs", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Have won the haven within my head.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "With lullaby, then, youth be still;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "With lullaby content thy will;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Since courage quails and comes behind,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Go sleep, and so beguile thy mind!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Next lullaby my gazing eyes,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Which wonted were to glance apace;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "For every glass may now suffice", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "To show the furrows in thy face.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "With lullaby then wink awhile;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "With lullaby your looks beguile;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Let no fair face, nor beauty bright,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Entice you eft with vain delight.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And lullaby my wanton will;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Let reason's rule now reign thy thought;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Since all too late I find by skill", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "How dear I have thy fancies bought;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "With lullaby now take thine ease,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "With lullaby thy doubts appease;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "For trust to this, if thou be still,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "My body shall obey thy will.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Thus lullaby my youth, mine eyes,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "My will, my ware, and all that was:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I can no more delays devise;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "But welcome pain, let pleasure pass.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "With lullaby now take your leave;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "With lullaby your dreams deceive;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And when you rise with waking eye,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Remember then this lullaby.", "") ?>
Poet("George Gascoigne", "1525?-1577") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>