StoryTitle("caps", "The Mad Maid's Song ") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Good-morrow to the day so fair,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Good-morning, sir, to you;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Good-morrow to mine own torn hair", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Bedabbled with the dew.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Good-morning to this primrose too, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Good-morrow to each maid", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "That will with flowers the tomb bestrew", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Wherein my love is laid.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Ah! woe is me, woe, woe is me!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Alack and well-a-day! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "For pity, sir, find out that bee", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Which bore my love away.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I'll seek him in your bonnet brave,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "I'll seek him in your eyes;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Nay, now I think they've made his grave ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "I' th' bed of strawberries.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I'll seek him there; I know ere this", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "The cold, cold earth doth shake him;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But I will go, or send a kiss", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "By you, sir, to awake him. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Pray hurt him not; though he be dead,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "He knows well who do love him,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And who with green turfs rear his head,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And who do rudely move him.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "He's soft and tender (pray take heed); ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "With bands of cowslips bind him,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And bring him home—but 'tis decreed", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "That I shall never find him!", "") ?>
Poet("Robert Herrick", "1591-1674") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>