StoryTitle("caps", "To Chloe") ?>
Who for His Sake Wished Herself Younger
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "There are two births; the one when light ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "First strikes the new awaken'd sense; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The other when two souls unite, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And we must count our life from thence: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "When you loved me and I loved you", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Then both of us were born anew. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Love then to us new souls did give ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And in those souls did plant new powers; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Since when another life we live, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "The breath we breathe is his, not ours:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Love makes those young whom age doth chill, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And whom he finds young keeps young still.", "") ?>
Poet("William Cartwright", "1611–1643") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>