3<? StoryTitle("caps", "From <I>Comus:</I>&nbsp; Fourth Selection") ?>
<? PoemStart() ?>
<div class="stanzabr">
<? PoemLine("L0", "", "<I>The Spirit epiloguizes:</I>", "") ?>
</div>
<div class="stanzanobr">
<? PoemLine("L6", "", "To the Ocean now I fly, ", "") ?>
<? PoemLine("L6", "", "And those happy climes that ly ", "") ?>
<? PoemLine("L6", "", "Where day never shuts his eye, ", "") ?>
<? PoemLine("L6", "", "Up in the broad fields of the sky: ", "") ?>
</div>
<div class="stanzanobr">
<? PoemLine("L6", "", "There I suck the liquid ayr        ", "") ?>
<? PoemLine("L6", "", "All amidst the Gardens fair ", "") ?>
<? PoemLine("L6", "", "Of Hesperus, and his daughters three ", "") ?>
<? PoemLine("L6", "", "That sing about the golden tree: ", "") ?>
</div>
<div class="stanzanobr">
<? PoemLine("L6", "", "Along the crisp&eacute;d shades and bowres ", "") ?>
<? PoemLine("L6", "", "Revels the spruce and jocond Spring, ", "") ?>
<? PoemLine("L6", "", "The Graces, and the rosie-boosom'd Howres, ", "") ?>
<? PoemLine("L6", "", "Thither all their bounties bring, ", "") ?>
</div>
<div class="stanzanobr">
<? PoemLine("L6", "", "That there eternal Summer dwels, ", "") ?>
<? PoemLine("L6", "", "And West winds, with musky wing ", "") ?>
<? PoemLine("L6", "", "About the cedar'n alleys fling ", "") ?>
<? PoemLine("L6", "", "Nard, and Cassia's balmy smels. ", "") ?>
</div>
<div class="stanzanobr">
<? PoemLine("L6", "", "Iris there with humid bow, ", "") ?>
<? PoemLine("L6", "", "Waters the odorous banks that blow ", "") ?>
<? PoemLine("L6", "", "Flowers of more mingled hew ", "") ?>
<? PoemLine("L6", "", "Than her purfl'd scarf can shew, ", "") ?>
</div>
<div class="stanzanobr">
<? PoemLine("L6", "", "And drenches with Elysian dew ", "") ?>
<? PoemLine("L6", "", "(List mortals, if your ears be true) ", "") ?>
<? PoemLine("L6", "", "Beds of Hyacinth, and roses ", "") ?>
<? PoemLine("L6", "", "Where young Adonis oft reposes, ", "") ?>
</div>
<div class="stanzanobr">
<? PoemLine("L6", "", "Waxing well of his deep wound ", "") ?>
<? PoemLine("L6", "", "In slumber soft, and on the ground ", "") ?>
<? PoemLine("L6", "", "Sadly sits th' Assyrian Queen; ", "") ?>
<? PoemLine("L6", "", "But far above in spangled sheen ", "") ?>
</div>
<div class="stanzanobr">
<? PoemLine("L6", "", "Celestial Cupid her fam'd son advanc't, ", "") ?>
<? PoemLine("L6", "", "Holds his dear Psyche sweet intranc't  ", "") ?>
<? PoemLine("L6", "", "After her wandring labours long, ", "") ?>
<? PoemLine("L6", "", "Till free consent the gods among ", "") ?>
</div>
<div class="stanzanobr">
<? PoemLine("L6", "", "Make her his eternal Bride, ", "") ?>
<? PoemLine("L6", "", "And from her fair unspotted side ", "") ?>
<? PoemLine("L6", "", "Two blissful twins are to be born, ", "") ?>
<? PoemLine("L6", "", "Youth and Joy; so Jove hath sworn. ", "") ?>
</div>
<div class="stanzanobr">
<? PoemLine("L8", "", "But now my task is smoothly don, ", "") ?>
<? PoemLine("L6", "", "I can fly, or I can run ", "") ?>
<? PoemLine("L6", "", "Quickly to the green earths end, ", "") ?>
<? PoemLine("L6", "", "Where the bow'd welkin slow doth bend, ", "") ?>
</div>
<div class="stanzanobr">
<? PoemLine("L6", "", "And from thence can soar as soon ", "") ?>
<? PoemLine("L6", "", "To the corners of the Moon. ", "") ?>
<? PoemLine("L8", "", "Mortals that would follow me, ", "") ?>
<? PoemLine("L6", "", "Love vertue, she alone is free. ", "") ?>
</div>
<div class="stanzalast">
<? PoemLine("L6", "", "She can teach ye how to clime  ", "") ?>
<? PoemLine("L6", "", "Higher then the Spheary chime; ", "") ?>
<? PoemLine("L6", "", "Or if Vertue feeble were, ", "") ?>
<? PoemLine("L6", "", "Heav'n it self would stoop to her.", "") ?>
<? Poet("John Milton", "1608&#8211;1674") ?>
</div>
<? PoemEnd() ?>