StoryTitle("caps", "A Contemplation Upon Flowers") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Brave flowers—that I could gallant it like you, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And be as little vain! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "You come abroad, and make a harmless show, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And to your beds of earth again. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "You are not proud: you know your birth: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "For your embroider'd garments are from earth. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "You do obey your months and times, but I ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Would have it ever Spring: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "My fate would know no Winter, never die, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Nor think of such a thing. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "O that I could my bed of earth but view ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And smile, and look as cheerfully as you! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "O teach me to see Death and not to fear, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "But rather to take truce! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "How often have I seen you at a bier, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And there look fresh and spruce! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "You fragrant flowers! then teach me, that my breath ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Like yours may sweeten and perfume my death.", "") ?>
Poet("Henry King, Bishop of Chichester", "1592-1669") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>