StoryTitle("caps", "Her~Reply") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "If all the world and love were young,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And truth in every shepherd's tongue,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "These pretty pleasures might me move", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To live with thee and be thy Love.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But Time drives flocks from field to fold;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "When rivers rage and rocks grow cold;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And Philomel becometh dumb;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The rest complains of cares to come.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The flowers do fade, and wanton fields", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To wayward Winter reckoning yields:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "A honey tongue, a heart of gall,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Is fancy's spring, but sorrow's fall.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Thy gowns, thy shoes, thy beds of roses,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Thy cap, thy kirtle, and thy posies,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Soon break, soon wither—soon forgotten,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "In folly ripe, in reason rotten.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Thy belt of straw and ivy‑buds,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Thy coral clasps and amber studs,—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "All these in me no means can move", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To come to thee and be thy Love.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But could youth last, and love still breed,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Had joys no date, nor age no need,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Then these delights my mind might move", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To live with thee and be thy Love.", "") ?>
Poet("Sir Walter Raleigh", "1552-1618") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>