StoryTitle("caps", "Time ") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Time is the feather'd thing, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And, whilst I praise ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The sparklings of thy looks and call them rays, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L6", "", "Takes wing, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Leaving behind him as he flies", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "An unperceivéd dimness in thine eyes. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "His minutes, whilst they're told, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Do make us old; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And every sand of his fleet glass, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Increasing age as it doth pass,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Insensibly sows wrinkles there ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Where flowers and roses do appear. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Whilst we do speak, our fire ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Doth into ice expire, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Flames turn to frost;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "And ere we can ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Know how our crow turns swan, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Or how a silver snow ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Springs there where jet did grow, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Our fading spring is in dull winter lost.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Since then the Night hath hurl'd ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Darkness, Love's shade, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Over its enemy the Day, and made ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L6", "", "The world ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Just such a blind and shapeless thing", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "As 'twas before light did from darkness spring, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Let us employ its treasure ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And make shade pleasure: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Let's number out the hours by blisses, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And count the minutes by our kisses;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Let the heavens new motions feel ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And by our embraces wheel; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And whilst we try the way ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "By which Love doth convey ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Soul unto soul,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "And mingling so ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Makes them such raptures know ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "As makes them éntranced lie ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "In mutual ecstasy, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Let the harmonious spheres in music roll!", "") ?>
Poet("Jasper Mayne", "1604-1672") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>