StoryTitle("caps", "His Winding-Sheet ") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Come thou, who are the wine and wit ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Of all I've writ: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The grace, the glory, and the best ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Piece of the rest. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Thou art of what I did intend ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "The all and end; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And what was made, was made to meet ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Thee, thee, my sheet. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Come then and be to my chaste side ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Both bed and bride: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "We two, as reliques left, will have ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Once rest, one grave: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And hugging close, we will not fear ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Lust entering here: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Where all desires are dead and cold ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "As is the mould; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And all affections are forgot, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Or trouble not. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Here, here, the slaves and prisoners be ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "From shackles free: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And weeping widows long oppress'd ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Do here find rest. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The wrongéd client ends his laws ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Here, and his cause. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Here those long suits of Chancery lie ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Quiet, or die: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And all Star-Chamber bills do cease ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Or hold their peace. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Here needs no Court for our Request ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Where all are best, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "All wise, all equal, and all just ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Alike i' th' dust. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Nor need we here to fear the frown ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Of court or crown: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Where fortune bears no sway o'er things, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "There all are kings. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "In this securer place we'll keep ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "As lull'd asleep; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Or for a little time we'll lie ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "As robes laid by; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To be another day re-worn, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Turn'd, but not torn: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Or like old testaments engross'd, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Lock'd up, not lost. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And for a while lie here conceal'd, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "To be reveal'd ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Next at the great Platonick year, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "And then meet here.", "") ?>
Poet("Robert Herrick", "1591-1674") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>