StoryTitle("caps", "To Cyriack Skinner ") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Cyriack, whose Grandsire on the Royal Bench", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Of Brittish Themis, with no mean applause", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Pronounc't and in his volumes taught our Lawes,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Which others at their Barr so often wrench:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To day deep thoughts resolve with me to drench", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "In mirth, that after no repenting drawes;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Let Euclid rest and Archimedes pause,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And what the Swede intend, and what the French.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To measure life, learn thou betimes, and know", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Toward solid good what leads the nearest way;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "For other things mild Heav'n a time ordains,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And disapproves that care, though wise in show,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "That with superfluous burden loads the day,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "And when God sends a cheerful hour, refrains.", "") ?>
Poet("John Milton", "1608–1674") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>