StoryTitle("caps", "Saint John Baptist ") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The last and greatest herald of Heaven's King, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Girt with rough skins, hies to the deserts wild, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Among that savage brood the woods forth bring, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Which he than man more harmless found and mild. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "His food was locusts, and what young doth spring", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "With honey that from virgin hives distill'd; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Parch'd body, hollow eyes, some uncouth thing ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Made him appear, long since from earth exiled. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "There burst he forth: \"All ye, whose hopes rely ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "On God, with me amidst these deserts mourn; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Repent, repent, and from old errors turn!\" ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "—Who listen'd to his voice, obey'd his cry? ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Only the echoes, which he made relent, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Rung from their marble caves \"Repent! Repent!\"", "") ?>
Poet("William Drummond of Hawthornden", "1585-1649") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>