StoryTitle("caps", "A Part of an Ode") ?>
To the Immortal Memory and Friendship
of that Noble Pair,
Sir Lucius Cary and Sir H. Morison
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "It is not growing like a tree ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "In bulk, doth make man better be; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Or standing long an oak, three hundred year, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To fall a log at last, dry, bald, and sere: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "A lily of a day ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Is fairer far in May, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Although it fall and die that night; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "It was the plant and flower of light. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "In small proportions we just beauties see; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And in short measures, life may perfect be. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Call, noble Lucius, then for wine, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And let thy looks with gladness shine: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Accept this garland, plant it on thy head, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And think—nay, know—thy Morison 's not dead. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "He leap'd the present age, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Possest with holy rage ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "To see that bright eternal Day ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Of which we Priests and Poets say ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Such truths as we expect for happy men; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And there he lives with memory—and Ben ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Jonson: who sung this of him, ere he went ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Himself to rest, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Or tast a part of that full joy he meant ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "To have exprest ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "In this bright Asterism ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Where it were friendship's schism— ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Were not his Lucius long with us to tarry— ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "To separate these twy ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Lights, the Dioscuri, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And keep the one half from his Harry. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But fate doth so alternate the design, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Whilst that in Heav'n, this light on earth must shine. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And shine as you exalted are! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Two names of friendship, but one star: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Of hearts the union: and those not by chance ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Made, or indenture, or leased out to advance ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "The profits for a time. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "No pleasures vain did chime ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Of rimes or riots at your feasts, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Orgies of drink or feign'd protests; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But simple love of greatness and of good, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "That knits brave minds and manners more than blood. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "This made you first to know the Why ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "You liked, then after, to apply ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "That liking, and approach so one the t'other ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Till either grew a portion of the other: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Each styléd by his end ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "The copy of his friend. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "You lived to be the great surnames ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And titles by which all made claims ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Unto the Virtue—nothing perfect done ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But as a CARY or a MORISON.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And such the force the fair example had ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "As they that saw ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The good, and durst not practise it, were glad ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "That such a law ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Was left yet to mankind, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Where they might read and find ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", SmallCapsText("Friendship"), " indeed was written, not in words, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "And with the heart, not pen, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Of two so early men, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Whose lines her rules were and records: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Who, ere the first down blooméd on the chin, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Had sow'd these fruits, and got the harvest in.", "") ?>
Poet("Ben Jonson", "1573-1637") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>