StoryTitle("caps", "Litany to the Holy Spirit") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "In the hour of my distress,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "When temptations me oppress,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And when I my sins confess,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Sweet Spirit, comfort me!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "When I lie within my bed, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Sick in heart and sick in head,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And with doubts discomforted,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Sweet Spirit, comfort me!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "When the house doth sigh and weep,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And the world is drown'd in sleep, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Yet mine eyes the watch do keep,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Sweet Spirit, comfort me!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "When the passing bell doth toll,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And the Furies in a shoal", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Come to fright a parting soul,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Sweet Spirit, comfort me!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "When the tapers now burn blue,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And the comforters are few,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And that number more than true,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Sweet Spirit, comfort me! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "When the priest his last hath pray'd,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And I nod to what is said,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0SQ", "", "'Cause my speech is now decay'd,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Sweet Spirit, comfort me!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "When, God knows, I'm toss'd about", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Either with despair or doubt;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Yet before the glass be out,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Sweet Spirit, comfort me!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "When the tempter me pursu'th", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "With the sins of all my youth, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And half damns me with untruth,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Sweet Spirit, comfort me!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "When the flames and hellish cries", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Fright mine ears and fright mine eyes,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And all terrors me surprise,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Sweet Spirit, comfort me!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "When the Judgment is reveal'd,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And that open'd which was seal'd,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "When to Thee I have appeal'd,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Sweet Spirit, comfort me! ", "") ?>
Poet("Robert Herrick", "1591-1674") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>