StoryTitle("caps", "Bridal Song") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Roses, their sharp spines being gone, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Not royal in their smells alone, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "But in their hue; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Maiden pinks, of odour faint, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Daisies smell-less, yet most quaint, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And sweet thyme true; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Primrose, firstborn child of Ver; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Merry springtime's harbinger, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "With her bells dim; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Oxlips in their cradles growing,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Marigolds on death-beds blowing, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Larks'-heels trim; ", "") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "All dear Nature's children sweet ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Lie 'fore bride and bridegroom's feet, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Blessing their sense!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Not an angel of the air, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Bird melodious or bird fair, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Is absent hence! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The crow, the slanderous cuckoo, nor ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The boding raven, nor chough hoar, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Nor chattering pye, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "May on our bride-house perch or sing, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Or with them any discord bring, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "But from it fly!", "") ?>
PoemAttribution("85", "—William Shakespeare or John Fletcher") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>