StoryTitle("caps", "Vanitas Vanitatum ") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "All the flowers of the spring ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Meet to perfume our burying; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "These have but their growing prime, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And man does flourish but his time: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Survey our progress from our birth— ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "We are set, we grow, we turn to earth. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Courts adieu, and all delights, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "All bewitching appetites! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Sweetest breath and clearest eye ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Like perfumes go out and die; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And consequently this is done ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "As shadows wait upon the sun. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Vain the ambition of kings ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Who seek by trophies and dead things ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To leave a living name behind, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And weave but nets to catch the wind.", "") ?>
Poet("John Webster", "c. 1580 - c. 1634") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>