StoryTitle("caps", "On~the~Death of~Sir~Philip~Sidney") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Give pardon, blesséd soul, to my bold cries,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "If they, importune, interrupt thy song,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Which now with joyful notes thou sing'st among", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The angel-quiristers of th' heavenly skies.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Give pardon eke, sweet soul, to my slow eyes,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "That since I saw thee now it is so long,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And yet the tears that unto thee belong", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To thee as yet they did not sacrifice.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I did not know that thou wert dead before;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I did not feel the grief I did sustain;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The greater stroke astonisheth the more;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Astonishment takes from us sense of pain;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "I stood amazed when others' tears begun,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And now begin to weep when they have done.", "") ?>
Poet("Henry Constable", "1562?-1613?") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>