StoryTitle("caps", "A Farewell to Arms") ?>
(To Queen Elizabeth)
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "His golden locks Time hath to silver turn'd;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "O Time too swift, O swiftness never ceasing!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "His youth 'gainst time and age hath ever spurn'd,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "But spurn'd in vain; youth waneth by increasing:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Beauty, strength, youth, are flowers but fading seen;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Duty, faith, love, are roots, and ever green.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "His helmet now shall make a hive for bees;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And, lovers' sonnets turn'd to holy psalms,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "A man-at-arms must now serve on his knees,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And feed on prayers, which are Age his alms:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But though from court to cottage he depart,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "His Saint is sure of his unspotted heart.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And when he saddest sits in homely cell,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "He'll teach his swains this carol for a song,—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"Blest be the hearts that wish my sovereign well,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Curst be the souls that think her any wrong.\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Goddess, allow this agéd man his right", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To be your beadsman now that was your knight.", "") ?>
Poet("George Peele", "1558?-1597") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>