StoryTitle("caps", "On Time") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Fly envious Time, till thou run out thy race, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Call on the lazy leaden-stepping hours, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Whose speed is but the heavy Plummets pace; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And glut thy self with what thy womb devours, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Which is no more then what is false and vain, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And meerly mortal dross; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "So little is our loss, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "So little is thy gain. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "For when as each thing bad thou hast entomb'd, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And last of all, thy greedy self consum'd, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Then long Eternity shall greet our bliss ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "With an individual kiss; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And Joy shall overtake us as a flood, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "When every thing that is sincerely good ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And perfectly divine, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "With Truth, and Peace, and Love shall ever shine ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "About the supreme Throne ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Of him, t'whose happy-making sight alone, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "When once our heav'nly-guided soul shall clime, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Then all this Earthy grosnes quit, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Attir'd with Stars, we shall for ever sit, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Triumphing over Death, and Chance, and thee O Time.", "") ?>
Poet("John Milton", "1608–1674") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>