StoryTitle("caps", "A Divine Rapture") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "E'en like two little bank-dividing brooks, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "That wash the pebbles with their wanton streams, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And having ranged and search'd a thousand nooks, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Meet both at length in silver-breasted Thames, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Where in a greater current they conjoin: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "So I my Best-belovéd's am; so He is mine. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "E'en so we met; and after long pursuit, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "E'en so we joined; we both became entire; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "No need for either to renew a suit, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "For I was flax, and He was flames of fire:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Our firm-united souls did more than twine; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "So I my Best-belovéd's am; so He is mine. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "If all those glittering Monarchs, that command ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "The servile quarters of this earthly ball, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Should tender in exchange their shares of land,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "I would not change my fortunes for them all: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", " Their wealth is but a counter to my coin: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The world's but theirs; but my Belovéd's mine. ", "") ?>
Poet("Francis Quarles", "1592-1644") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>