StoryTitle("caps", "Aurora") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "O happy Tithon! if thou know'st thy hap, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And valuest thy wealth, as I my want, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Then need'st thou not—which ah! I grieve to grant— ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Repine at Jove, lull'd in his leman's lap: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "That golden shower in which he did repose— ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "One dewy drop it stains ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Which thy Aurora rains ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Upon the rural plains, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "When from thy bed she passionately goes. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Then, waken'd with the music of the merles,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "She not remembers Memnon when she mourns: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "That faithful flame which in her bosom burns ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "From crystal conduits throws those liquid pearls: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Sad from thy sight so soon to be removed, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "She so her grief delates. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "—O favour'd by the fates ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Above the happiest states, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Who art of one so worthy well-beloved!", "") ?>
Poet("William Alexander, Earl of Stirling", "1580?-1640") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>