StoryTitle("caps", "A Devout Lover") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I have a mistress, for perfections rare ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "In every eye, but in my thoughts most fair. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Like tapers on the altar shine her eyes; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Her breath is the perfume of sacrifice; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And wheresoe'er my fancy would begin, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Still her perfection lets religion in. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "We sit and talk, and kiss away the hours ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "As chastely as the morning dews kiss flowers: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I touch her, like my beads, with devout care, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And come unto my courtship as my prayer.", "") ?>
Poet("Thomas Randolph", "1605-1635") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>