StoryTitle("caps", "Friends Departed ") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "They are all gone into the world of light! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And I alone sit ling'ring here; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Their very memory is fair and bright, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "And my sad thoughts doth clear. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "It glows and glitters in my cloudy breast, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Like stars upon some gloomy grove, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Or those faint beams in which this hill is drest ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "After the sun's remove. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I see them walking in an air of glory, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Whose light doth trample on my days: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "My days, which are at best but dull and hoary, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Mere glimmering and decays. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "O holy Hope! and high Humility, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "High as the heavens above! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "These are your walks, and you have show'd them me, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "To kindle my cold love. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Dear, beauteous Death! the jewel of the Just, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Shining nowhere, but in the dark; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "What mysteries do lie beyond thy dust, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Could man outlook that mark! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "He that hath found some fledged bird's nest may know, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "At first sight, if the bird be flown; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But what fair well or grove he sings in now, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "That is to him unknown. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And yet as Angels in some brighter dreams ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Call to the soul, when man doth sleep: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "So some strange thoughts transcend our wonted themes, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "And into glory peep. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "If a star were confined into a tomb, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Her captive flames must needs burn there; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But when the hand that lock'd her up gives room, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "She'll shine through all the sphere. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "O Father of eternal life, and all ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Created glories under Thee! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Resume Thy spirit from this world of thrall ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Into true liberty. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Either disperse these mists, which blot and fill ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "My perspective still as they pass: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Or else remove me hence unto that hill, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Where I shall need no glass.", "") ?>
Poet("Henry Vaughan", "1621–1695") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>