StoryTitle("caps", "To a Mistress Dying") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", " Lover: Your beauty, ripe and calm and fresh ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L9", "", "As eastern summers are, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L7", "", "Must now, forsaking time and flesh, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L9", "", "Add light to some small star. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", " Philosopher: Whilst she yet lives, were stars decay'd,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L9", "", "Their light by hers relief might find; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L7", "", "But Death will lead her to a shade ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L9", "", "Where Love is cold and Beauty blind. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", " Lover: Lovers, whose priests all poets are, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L9", "", "Think every mistress, when she dies,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L7", "", "Is changed at least into a star: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L9", "", "And who dares doubt the poets wise? ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", " Philosopher: But ask not bodies doom'd to die ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L9", "", "To what abode they go; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L7", "", "Since Knowledge is but Sorrow's spy,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L9", "", "It is not safe to know.", "") ?>
Poet("Sir William Davenant", "1606-1668") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>