StoryTitle("caps", "The Shadow") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Follow a shadow, it still flies you; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Seem to fly it, it will pursue: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "So court a mistress, she denies you; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Let her alone, she will court you. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Say, are not women truly, then, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Styled but the shadows of us men? ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "At morn and even, shades are longest; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "At noon they are or short or none: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "So men at weakest, they are strongest, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "But grant us perfect, they're not known.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Say, are not women truly, then, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Styled but the shadows of us men?", "") ?>
Poet("Ben Jonson", "1573-1637") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>