StoryTitle("caps", "Persuasions to Joy: A Song ") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "If the quick spirits in your eye ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Now languish and anon must die; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "If every sweet and every grace ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Must fly from that forsaken face; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Then, Celia, let us reap our joys ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Ere Time such goodly fruit destroys. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Or if that golden fleece must grow ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "For ever free from agéd snow; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "If those bright suns must know no shade, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Nor your fresh beauties ever fade; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Then fear not, Celia, to bestow ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "What, still being gather'd, still must grow. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Thus either Time his sickle brings ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "In vain, or else in vain his wings.", "") ?>
Poet("Thomas Carew", "1595?-1639?") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>