StoryTitle("caps", "The Funeral Rites of the Rose") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The Rose was sick and smiling died; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And, being to be sanctified, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "About the bed there sighing stood ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The sweet and flowery sisterhood: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Some hung the head, while some did bring, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To wash her, water from the spring; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Some laid her forth, while others wept, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But all a solemn fast there kept: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The holy sisters, some among, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The sacred dirge and trental sung. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But ah! what sweet smelt everywhere, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "As Heaven had spent all perfumes there. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "At last, when prayers for the dead ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And rites were all accomplishéd, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "They, weeping, spread a lawny loom, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And closed her up as in a tomb.", "") ?>
Poet("Robert Herrick", "1591-1674") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>