StoryTitle("caps", "The Relapse") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "O turn away those cruel eyes, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "The stars of my undoing! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Or death, in such a bright disguise, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "May tempt a second wooing. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Punish their blind and impious pride,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Who dare contemn thy glory; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "It was my fall that deified ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Thy name, and seal'd thy story. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Yet no new sufferings can prepare ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "A higher praise to crown thee; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Though my first death proclaim thee fair, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "My second will unthrone thee. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Lovers will doubt thou canst entice ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "No other for thy fuel, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And if thou burn one victim twice, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Both think thee poor and cruel. ", "") ?>
Poet("Thomas Stanley", "1625–1678") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>