StoryTitle("caps", "To Blossoms") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Fair pledges of a fruitful tree, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Why do ye fall so fast? ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Your date is not so past ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But you may stay yet here awhile ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "To blush and gently smile,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L5", "", "And go at last. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "What! were ye born to be ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "An hour or half's delight, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And so to bid good night? ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0SQ", "", "'Twas pity Nature brought you forth ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Merely to show your worth ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L5", "", "And lose you quite. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But you are lovely leaves, where we ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "May read how soon things have ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Their end, though ne'er so brave:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And after they have shown their pride ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Like you awhile, they glide ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L5", "", "Into the grave. ", "") ?>
Poet("Robert Herrick", "1591-1674") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>