StoryTitle("caps", "A Hymn ") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "O fly, my Soul! What hangs upon", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Thy drooping wings,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "And weighs them down", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "With love of gaudy mortal things?", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The Sun is now i' the east: each shade", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "As he doth rise", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Is shorter made,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "That earth may lessen to our eyes.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "O be not careless then and play", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Until the Star of Peace ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Hide all his beams in dark recess!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Poor pilgrims needs must lose their way,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "When all the shadows do increase.", "") ?>
Poet("James Shirley", "1596-1666") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>