StoryTitle("caps", "An Elegy") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Though beauty be the mark of praise, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And yours of whom I sing be such ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "As not the world can praise too much, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Yet 'tis your virtue now I raise. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "A virtue, like allay so gone ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Throughout your form as, though that move ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And draw and conquer all men's love, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "This subjects you to love of one. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Wherein you triumph yet—because ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2SQ", "", "'Tis of your flesh, and that you use", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "The noblest freedom, not to choose ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Against or faith or honour's laws. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But who should less expect from you? ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "In whom alone Love lives again: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "By whom he is restored to men,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And kept and bred and brought up true. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "His falling temples you have rear'd, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "The wither'd garlands ta'en away; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "His altars kept from that decay ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "That envy wish'd, and nature fear'd:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And on them burn so chaste a flame, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "With so much loyalty's expense, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "As Love to acquit such excellence ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Is gone himself into your name. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And you are he—the deity", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "To whom all lovers are design'd ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "That would their better objects find; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Among which faithful troop am I— ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Who as an off'ring at your shrine ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Have sung this hymn, and here entreat", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "One spark of your diviner heat ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To light upon a love of mine. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Which if it kindle not, but scant ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Appear, and that to shortest view; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Yet give me leave to adore in you", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "What I in her am grieved to want!", "") ?>
Poet("Ben Jonson", "1573-1637") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>