StoryTitle("caps", "The Pulley") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "When God at first made Man, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Having a glass of blessings standing by— ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Let us (said He) pour on him all we can; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Let the world's riches, which disperséd lie, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Contract into a span. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "So strength first made a way, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Then beauty flow'd, then wisdom, honour, pleasure: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "When almost all was out, God made a stay, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Perceiving that, alone of all His treasure, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Rest in the bottom lay.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "For if I should (said He) ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Bestow this jewel also on My creature, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "He would adore My gifts instead of Me, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And rest in Nature, not the God of Nature: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "So both should losers be.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Yet let him keep the rest, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But keep them with repining restlessness; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Let him be rich and weary, that at least, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "If goodness lead him not, yet weariness ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "May toss him to My breast.", "") ?>
Poet("George Herbert", "1593-1632") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>