StoryTitle("caps", "A Renunciation") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "We, that did nothing study but the way ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To love each other, with which thoughts the day ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Rose with delight to us and with them set, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Must learn the hateful art, how to forget. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "We, that did nothing wish that Heaven could give ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Beyond ourselves, nor did desire to live ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Beyond that wish, all these now cancel must, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "As if not writ in faith, but words and dust. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Yet witness those clear vows which lovers make, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Witness the chaste desires that never brake ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Into unruly heats; witness that breast ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Which in thy bosom anchor'd his whole rest— ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0SQ", "", "'Tis no default in us: I dare acquite ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Thy maiden faith, thy purpose fair and white ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "As thy pure self. Cross planets did envý ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Us to each other, and Heaven did untie ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Faster than vows could bind. Oh, that the stars, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "When lovers meet, should stand opposed in wars! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Since then some higher Destinies command, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Let us not strive, nor labour to withstand ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "What is past help. The longest date of grief ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Can never yield a hope of our relief: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Fold back our arms; take home our fruitless loves, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "That must new fortunes try, like turtle-doves ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Dislodgéd from their haunts. We must in tears ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Unwind a love knit up in many years. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "In this last kiss I here surrender thee ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Back to thyself.—So, thou again art free: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Thou in another, sad as that, resend ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The truest heart that lover e'er did lend. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Now turn from each: so fare our sever'd hearts ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "As the divorced soul from her body parts.", "") ?>
Poet("Henry King, Bishop of Chichester", "1592-1669") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>