StoryTitle("caps", "The~Burning~Babe") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "As I in hoary winter's night", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Stood shivering in the snow,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Surprised I was with sudden heat", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Which made my heart to glow;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And lifting up a fearful eye", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "To view what fire was near,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "A pretty babe all burning bright", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Did in the air appear;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Who, scorchéd with excessive heat,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Such floods of tears did shed,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "As though His floods should quench His flames,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Which with His tears were bred:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"Alas!\" quoth He, \"but newly born", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "In fiery heats I fry,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Yet none approach to warm their hearts", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Or feel my fire but I!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"My faultless breast the furnace is;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "The fuel, wounding thorns;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Love is the fire, and sighs the smoke;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "The ashes, shames and scorns;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The fuel Justice layeth on,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And Mercy blows the coals,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The metal in this furnace wrought", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Are men's defiléd souls:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "For which, as now on fire I am", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "To work them to their good,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "So will I melt into a bath,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "To wash them in my blood.\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "With this He vanish'd out of sight", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And swiftly shrunk away,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And straight I calléd unto mind", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "That it was Christmas Day.", "") ?>
Poet("Robert Southwell", "1561-1595") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>