StoryTitle("caps", "Aubade") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The lark now leaves his wat'ry nest, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And climbing shakes his dewy wings. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "He takes this window for the East, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And to implore your light he sings— ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Awake, awake! the morn will never rise ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Till she can dress her beauty at your eyes. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The merchant bows unto the seaman's star, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "The ploughman from the sun his season takes; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But still the lover wonders what they are ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Who look for day before his mistress wakes.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Awake, awake! break thro' your veils of lawn!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Then draw your curtains, and begin the dawn!", "") ?>
Poet("Sir William Davenant", "1606-1668") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>