StoryTitle("caps", "Her Passing") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "The beauty and the life ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Of life's and beauty's fairest paragon ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "—O tears! O grief!—hung at a feeble thread ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To which pale Atropos had set her knife; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "The soul with many a groan ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Had left each outward part, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And now did take his last leave of the heart: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Naught else did want, save death, ev'n to be dead; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "When the afflicted band about her bed, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Seeing so fair him come in lips, cheeks, eyes, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Cried, \"Ah! and can Death enter Paradise?\"", "") ?>
Poet("William Drummond of Hawthornden", "1585-1649") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>