StoryTitle("caps", "The Timber ") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Sure thou didst flourish once! and many springs, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Many bright mornings, much dew, many showers, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Pass'd o'er thy head; many light hearts and wings, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Which now are dead, lodg'd in thy living bowers. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And still a new succession sings and flies; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Fresh groves grow up, and their green branches shoot ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Towards the old and still enduring skies, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "While the low violet thrives at their root. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But thou beneath the sad and heavy line ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Of death, doth waste all senseless, cold, and dark;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Where not so much as dreams of light may shine, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Nor any thought of greenness, leaf, or bark. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And yet—as if some deep hate and dissent, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Bred in thy growth betwixt high winds and thee, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Were still alive—thou dost great storms resent", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Before they come, and know'st how near they be. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Else all at rest thou liest, and the fierce breath ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Of tempests can no more disturb thy ease; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But this thy strange resentment after death ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Means only those who broke—in life—thy peace.", "") ?>
Poet("Henry Vaughan", "1621–1695") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>