StoryTitle("caps", "On the Tombs in Westminster Abbey") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Mortality, behold and fear! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "What a change of flesh is here! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Think how many royal bones ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Sleep within this heap of stones: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Here they lie had realms and lands, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Who now want strength to stir their hands: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Where from their pulpits seal'd with dust ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "They preach, \"In greatness is no trust.\" ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Here's an acre sown indeed ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "With the richest, royall'st seed ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "That the earth did e'er suck in ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Since the first man died for sin: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Here the bones of birth have cried— ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"Though gods they were, as men they died.\" ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Here are sands, ignoble things, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Dropt from the ruin'd sides of kings; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Here's a world of pomp and state, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Buried in dust, once dead by fate.", "") ?>
Poet("Francis Beaumont", "1586-1626") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>