StoryTitle("caps", "Philomel") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "As it fell upon a day ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "In the merry month of May, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Sitting in a pleasant shade ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Which a grove of myrtles made, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Beasts did leap and birds did sing, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Trees did grow and plants did spring; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Everything did banish moan ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Save the Nightingale alone: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "She, poor bird, as all forlorn ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Lean'd her breast up-till a thorn, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And there sung the dolefull'st ditty, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "That to hear it was great pity. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Fie, fie, fie! now would she cry; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Tereu, Tereu! by and by; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "That to hear her so complain ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Scarce I could from tears refrain; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "For her griefs so lively shown ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Made me think upon mine own. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Ah! thought I, thou mourn'st in vain, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "None takes pity on thy pain: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Senseless trees they cannot hear thee, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Ruthless beasts they will not cheer thee: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "King Pandion he is dead, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "All thy friends are lapp'd in lead; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "All thy fellow birds do sing ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Careless of thy sorrowing: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Even so, poor bird, like thee, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "None alive will pity me.", "") ?>
Poet("Richard Barnefield", "1574-1627") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>