StoryTitle("caps", "Hymn to Diana") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Queen and huntress, chaste and fair, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Now the sun is laid to sleep, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Seated in thy silver chair, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "State in wonted manner keep: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Hesperus entreats thy light, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Goddess excellently bright. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Earth, let not thy envious shade ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Dare itself to interpose; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Cynthia's shining orb was made ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Heaven to clear when day did close:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Bless us then with wishéd sight, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Goddess excellently bright. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Lay thy bow of pearl apart, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And thy crystal-shining quiver; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Give unto the flying hart", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Space to breathe, how short soever: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Thou that mak'st a day of night—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Goddess excellently bright.", "") ?>
Poet("Ben Jonson", "1573-1637") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>