StoryTitle("caps", "On the Death of Mr. William Hervey") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "It was a dismal and a fearful night: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Scarce could the Morn drive on th' unwilling Light, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "When Sleep, Death's image, left my troubled breast ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L3", "", "By something liker Death possest. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "My eyes with tears did uncommanded flow, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L3", "", "And on my soul hung the dull weight ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L3", "", "Of some intolerable fate. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "What bell was that? Ah me! too much I know! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "My sweet companion and my gentle peer, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Why hast thou left me thus unkindly here, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Thy end for ever and my life to moan? ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L3", "", "O, thou hast left me all alone! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Thy soul and body, when death's agony ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L3", "", "Besieged around thy noble heart, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L3", "", "Did not with more reluctance part ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Than I, my dearest Friend, do part from thee. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "My dearest Friend, would I had died for thee! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Life and this world henceforth will tedious be: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Nor shall I know hereafter what to do ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L3", "", "If once my griefs prove tedious too. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Silent and sad I walk about all day, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L3", "", "As sullen ghosts stalk speechless by ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L3", "", "Where their hid treasures lie; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Alas! my treasure's gone; why do I stay? ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Say, for you saw us, ye immortal lights, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "How oft unwearied have we spent the nights, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Till the Ledæan stars, so famed for love, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L3", "", "Wonder'd at us from above! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "We spent them not in toys, in lusts, or wine; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L3", "", "But search of deep Philosophy, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L3", "", "Wit, Eloquence, and Poetry—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Arts which I loved, for they, my Friend, were thine. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Ye fields of Cambridge, our dear Cambridge, say ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Have ye not seen us walking every day? ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Was there a tree about which did not know ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L3", "", "The love betwixt us two? ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Henceforth, ye gentle trees, for ever fade; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L3", "", "Or your sad branches thicker join ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L3", "", "And into darksome shades combine, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Dark as the grave wherein my Friend is laid! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Large was his soul: as large a soul as e'er ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Submitted to inform a body here; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "High as the place 'twas shortly in Heaven to have, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L3", "", "But low and humble as his grave. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "So high that all the virtues there did come, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L3", "", "As to their chiefest seat ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L3", "", "Conspicuous and great; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "So low, that for me too it made a room. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Knowledge he only sought, and so soon caught ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "As if for him Knowledge had rather sought; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Nor did more learning ever crowded lie ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L3", "", "In such a short mortality. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Whene'er the skilful youth discoursed or writ, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L3", "", "Still did the notions throng ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L3", "", "About his eloquent tongue; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Nor could his ink flow faster than his wit. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "His mirth was the pure spirits of various wit, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Yet never did his God or friends forget; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And when deep talk and wisdom came in view, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L3", "", "Retired, and gave to them their due. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "For the rich help of books he always took, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L3", "", "Though his own searching mind before ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L3", "", "Was so with notions written o'er, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "As if wise Nature had made that her book. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "With as much zeal, devotion, piety, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "He always lived, as other saints do die. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Still with his soul severe account he kept, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L3", "", "Weeping all debts out ere he slept. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Then down in peace and innocence he lay, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L3", "", "Like the Sun's laborious light, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L3", "", "Which still in water sets at night, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Unsullied with his journey of the day. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But happy Thou, ta'en from this frantic age, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Where ignorance and hypocrisy does rage! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "A fitter time for Heaven no soul e'er chose— ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L3", "", "The place now only free from those. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "There 'mong the blest thou dost for ever shine; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L3", "", "And wheresoe'er thou casts thy view ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L3", "", "Upon that white and radiant crew, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "See'st not a soul clothed with more light than thine. ", "") ?>
Poet("Abraham Cowley", "1618–1667") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>