StoryTitle("caps", "Splendidis Longum Valedico Nugis") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Leave me, O Love, which reachest but to dust,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And thou, my mind, aspire to higher things!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Grow rich in that which never taketh rust:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Whatever fades, but fading pleasure brings.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Draw in thy beams, and humble all thy might", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To that sweet yoke where lasting freedoms be;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Which breaks the clouds and opens forth the light", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "That doth both shine and give us sight to see.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "O take fast hold! let that light be thy guide", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "In this small course which birth draws out to death,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And think how evil becometh him to slide", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Who seeketh Heaven, and comes of heavenly breath.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Then farewell, world! thy uttermost I see:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Eternal Love, maintain thy life in me!", "") ?>
Poet("Sir Philip Sidney", "1554-1586") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>