StoryTitle("caps", "A Welcome") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Welcome, welcome! do I sing, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Far more welcome than the spring; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "He that parteth from you never ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Shall enjoy a spring for ever. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "He that to the voice is near", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Breaking from your iv'ry pale, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Need not walk abroad to hear ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "The delightful nightingale. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L10", "", "Welcome, welcome, then . . . ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "He that looks still on your eyes, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Though the winter have begun ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To benumb our arteries, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Shall not want the summer's sun. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L10", "", "Welcome, welcome, then . . . ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "He that still may see your cheeks,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Where all rareness still reposes, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Is a fool if e'er he seeks ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Other lilies, other roses. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L10", "", "Welcome, welcome, then . . . ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "He to whom your soft lip yields,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And perceives your breath in kissing, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "All the odours of the fields ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Never, never shall be missing. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L10", "", "Welcome, welcome, then . . . ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "He that question would anew ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "What fair Eden was of old, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Let him rightly study you, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And a brief of that behold. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L10", "", "Welcome, welcome, then . . .", "") ?>
Poet("William Browne of Tavistock", "1588-1643") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>