StoryTitle("caps", "The~Night Is~Near~Gone") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Hey! now the day dawis;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The jolly cock crawis;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Now shroudis the shawis", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Thro' Nature anon.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The thissel-cock cryis", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "On lovers wha lyis:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Now skaillis the skyis;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "The nicht is neir gone.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The fieldis ouerflowis", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "With gowans that growis,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Quhair lilies like low is", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "As red as the rone.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The turtle that true is,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "With notes that renewis,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Her pairty pursuis:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "The nicht is neir gone.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Now hairtis with hindis", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Conform to their kindis,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Hie tursis their tyndis", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "On ground quhair they grone.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Now hurchonis, with hairis,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Aye passis in pairis;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Quhilk duly declaris", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "The nicht is neir gone.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The season excellis", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Through sweetness that smellis;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Now Cupid compellis", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Our hairtis echone", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "On Venus wha waikis,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To muse on our maikis,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Syne sing for their saikis—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2DQ", "", "\"The nicht is neir gone!\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "All courageous knichtis", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Aganis the day dichtis", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The breist-plate that bright is", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "To fight with their fone.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The stonéd steed stampis", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Through courage, and crampis,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Syne on the land lampis:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "The nicht is neir gone.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The freikis on feildis", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "That wight wapins weildis", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "With shyning bright shieldis", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "At Titan in trone;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Stiff speiris in reistis", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Ouer corseris crestis", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Are broke on their breistis:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "The nicht is neir gone.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "So hard are their hittis,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Some sweyis, some sittis,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And some perforce flittis", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "On ground quhile they grone.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Syne groomis that gay is", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "On blonkis that brayis", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "With swordis assayis:—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "The nicht is neir gone.", "") ?>
Poet("Alexander Montgomerie", "1540?-1610?") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>