StoryTitle("caps", "Sister, Awake!") ?>
From Thomas Bateson's First Set of English Madrigals (1604)
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Sister, awake! close not your eyes!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "The day her light discloses,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And the bright morning doth arise", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Out of her bed of roses.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "See the clear sun, the world's bright eye,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "In at our window peeping:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Lo, how he blusheth to espy", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Us idle wenches sleeping!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Therefore awake! make haste, I say,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And let us, without staying,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "All in our gowns of green so gay", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Into the Park a-maying!", "") ?>
Poet("Anonymous", "") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>