StoryTitle("caps", "To a Lady Asking Him
How Long He Would Love Her ") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "It is not, Celia, in our power ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "To say how long our love will last; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "It may be we within this hour ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "May lose those joys we now do taste; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The Blesséd, that immortal be, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "From change in love are only free. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Then since we mortal lovers are, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Ask not how long our love will last; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But while it does, let us take care ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Each minute be with pleasure past:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Were it not madness to deny ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To live because we're sure to die?", "") ?>
Poet("Sir George Etherege", "1635–1691") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>