StoryTitle("caps", "The~Parting") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Since there's no help, come let us kiss and part—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Nay, I have done, you get no more of me;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And I am glad, yea, glad with all my heart,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "That thus so cleanly I myself can free.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Shake hands for ever, cancel all our vows,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And when we meet at any time again,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Be it not seen in either of our brows", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "That we one jot of former love retain.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Now at the last gasp of Love's latest breath,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "When, his pulse failing, Passion speechless lies,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "When Faith is kneeling by his bed of death,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And Innocence is closing up his eyes,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "—Now if thou wouldst, when all have given him over,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "From death to life thou might'st him yet recover.", "") ?>
Poet("Michael Drayton", "1563-1631") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>