StoryTitle("caps", "An Epitaph") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Enough; and leave the rest to Fame! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0SQ", "", "'Tis to commend her, but to name. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Courtship which, living, she declined, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "When dead, to offer were unkind: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Nor can the truest wit, or friend, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Without detracting, her commend. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To say—she lived a virgin chaste ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "In this age loose and all unlaced; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Nor was, when vice is so allowed, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Of virtue or ashamed or proud; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "That her soul was on Heaven so bent, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "No minute but it came and went; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "That, ready her last debt to pay, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "She summ'd her life up every day; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Modest as morn, as mid-day bright, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Gentle as evening, cool as night: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "—'Tis true; but all too weakly said. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0SQ", "", "'Twas more significant, she's dead.", "") ?>
Poet("Andrew Marvell", "1621–1678") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>