StoryTitle("caps", "From Comus: First Selection ") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Star that bids the Shepherd fold,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Now the top of Heav'n doth hold,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And the gilded Car of Day,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "His glowing Axle doth allay", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "In the steep Atlantick stream, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And the slope Sun his upward beam", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Shoots against the dusky Pole,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Pacing toward the other gole", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Of his Chamber in the East.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Mean while welcom Joy, and Feast, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Midnight shout, and revelry,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Tipsie dance, and Jollity.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Braid your Locks with rosie Twine", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Dropping odours, dropping Wine.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Rigor now is gon to bed, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And Advice with scrupulous head,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Strict Age, and sowre Severity,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "With their grave Saws in slumber ly.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "We that are of purer fire", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Imitate the Starry Quire, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Who in their nightly watchfull Sphears,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Lead in swift round the Months and Years.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The Sounds, and Seas with all their finny drove", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Now to the Moon in wavering Morrice move,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And on the Tawny Sands and Shelves, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Trip the pert Fairies and the dapper Elves;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "By dimpled Brook, and Fountain brim,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The Wood-Nymphs deckt with Daisies trim,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Their merry wakes and pastimes keep:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "What hath night to do with sleep? ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Night hath better sweets to prove,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Venus now wakes, and wak'ns Love . . . .", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Com, knit hands, and beat the ground,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "In a light fantastick round.", "") ?>
Poet("John Milton", "1608–1674") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>