StoryTitle("caps", "Praise and Prayer") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Praise is devotion fit for mighty minds, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "The diff'ring world's agreeing sacrifice; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Where Heaven divided faiths united finds: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "But Prayer in various discord upward flies. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "For Prayer the ocean is where diversely", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Men steer their course, each to a sev'ral coast; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Where all our interests so discordant be ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "That half beg winds by which the rest are lost. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "By Penitence when we ourselves forsake, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2SQ", "", "'Tis but in wise design on piteous Heaven;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "In Praise we nobly give what God may take, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And are, without a beggar's blush, forgiven.", "") ?>
Poet("Sir William Davenant", "1606-1668") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>