StoryTitle("caps", "I Loved a Lass") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I loved a lass, a fair one,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "As fair as e'er was seen;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "She was indeed a rare one,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Another Sheba Queen:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But, fool as then I was,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "I thought she loved me too:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But now, alas! she's left me,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Falero, lero, loo!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Her hair like gold did glister,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Each eye was like a star, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "She did surpass her sister,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Which pass'd all others far;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "She would me honey call,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "She'd—O she'd kiss me too!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But now, alas! she's left me, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Falero, lero, loo!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Many a merry meeting", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "My love and I have had;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "She was my only sweeting,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "She made my heart full glad; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The tears stood in her eyes", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Like to the morning dew:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But now, alas! she's left me,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Falero, lero, loo!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Her cheeks were like the cherry, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Her skin was white as snow;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "When she was blithe and merry", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "She angel-like did show;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Her waist exceeding small,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "The fives did fit her shoe: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But now, alas! she's left me,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Falero, lero, loo!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "In summer time or winter", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "She had her heart's desire;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I still did scorn to stint her", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "From sugar, sack, or fire;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The world went round about,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "No cares we ever knew:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But now, alas! she's left me,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Falero, lero, loo! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To maidens' vows and swearing", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Henceforth no credit give;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "You may give them the hearing,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "But never them believe;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "They are as false as fair,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Unconstant, frail, untrue:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "For mine, alas! hath left me,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Falero, lero, loo!", "") ?>
Poet("George Wither", "1588-1667") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>