StoryTitle("caps", "On a Virtuous Young Gentlewoman
That Died Suddenly ") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "She who to Heaven more Heaven doth annex, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Whose lowest thought was above all our sex, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Accounted nothing death but t' be reprieved, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And died as free from sickness as she lived. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Others are dragg'd away, or must be driven, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "She only saw her time and stept to Heaven; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Where seraphims view all her glories o'er, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "As one return'd that had been there before. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "For while she did this lower world adorn, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Her body seem'd rather assumed than born; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "So rarified, advanced, so pure and whole, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "That body might have been another's soul; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And equally a miracle it were ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "That she could die, or that she could live here.", "") ?>
Poet("William Cartwright", "1611–1643") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>