StoryTitle("caps", "The Message") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Ye little birds that sit and sing", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Amidst the shady valleys,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And see how Phillis sweetly walks", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Within her garden-alleys;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Go, pretty birds, about her bower;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Sing, pretty birds, she may not lower;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Ah me! methinks I see her frown!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Ye pretty wantons, warble.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Go tell her through your chirping bills,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "As you by me are bidden, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To her is only known my love,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Which from the world is hidden.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Go, pretty birds, and tell her so,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "See that your notes strain not too low,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "For still methinks I see her frown; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Ye pretty wantons, warble.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Go tune your voices' harmony", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And sing, I am her lover;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Strain loud and sweet, that every note", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "With sweet content may move her: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And she that hath the sweetest voice,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Tell her I will not change my choice:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "—Yet still methinks I see her frown!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Ye pretty wantons, warble.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "O fly! make haste! see, see, she falls ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Into a pretty slumber!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Sing round about her rosy bed", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "That waking she may wonder:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Say to her, 'tis her lover true", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "That sendeth love to you, to you! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And when you hear her kind reply,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Return with pleasant warblings.", "") ?>
Poet("Thomas Heywood", "c. 1570-1641") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>