StoryTitle("caps", "Song to a Fair Young Lady,
Going Out of the Town in the Spring ") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Ask not the cause why sullen Spring ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "So long delays her flowers to bear; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Why warbling birds forget to sing, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And winter storms invert the year: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Chloris is gone; and fate provides ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To make it Spring where she resides. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Chloris is gone, the cruel fair; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "She cast not back a pitying eye: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But left her lover in despair ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "To sigh, to languish, and to die:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Ah! how can those fair eyes endure ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To give the wounds they will not cure? ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Great God of Love, why hast thou made ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "A face that can all hearts command, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "That all religions can invade,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And change the laws of every land? ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Where thou hadst placed such power before, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Thou shouldst have made her mercy more. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "When Chloris to the temple comes, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Adoring crowds before her fall;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "She can restore the dead from tombs ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And every life but mine recall. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I only am by Love design'd ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To be the victim for mankind. ", "") ?>
Poet("John Dryden", "1631–1700") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>