StoryTitle("caps", "News ") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "News from a foreign country came ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "As if my treasure and my wealth lay there; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "So much it did my heart inflame, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0SQ", "", "'Twas wont to call my Soul into mine ear; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L6", "", "Which thither went to meet ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L8", "", "The approaching sweet, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L6", "", "And on the threshold stood ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "To entertain the unknown Good. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L8", "", "It hover'd there ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L6", "", "As if 'twould leave mine ear,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "And was so eager to embrace ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L5", "", "The joyful tidings as they came, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4SQ", "", "'Twould almost leave its dwelling-place ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L6", "", "To entertain that same. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "As if the tidings were the things,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "My very joys themselves, my foreign treasure— ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Or else did bear them on their wings— ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "With so much joy they came, with so much pleasure. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L6", "", "My Soul stood at that gate ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L8", "", "To recreate", "") ?>
PoemLine("L6", "", "Itself with bliss, and to ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Be pleased with speed. A fuller view ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L8", "", "It fain would take, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L6", "", "Yet journeys back would make ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Unto my heart; as if 'twould fain ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L5", "", "Go out to meet, yet stay within ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "To fit a place to entertain ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L6", "", "And bring the tidings in. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "What sacred instinct did inspire ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "My soul in childhood with a hope so strong? ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "What secret force moved my desire ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To expect my joys beyond the seas, so young? ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L6", "", "Felicity I knew ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L8", "", "Was out of view, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L6", "", "And being here alone,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "I saw that happiness was gone ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L8", "", "From me! For this ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L6", "", "I thirsted absent bliss, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "And thought that sure beyond the seas, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L5", "", "Or else in something near at hand—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "I knew not yet—since naught did please ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L6", "", "I knew—my Bliss did stand. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "But little did the infant dream ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "That all the treasures of the world were by: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And that himself was so the cream", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And crown of all which round about did lie. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L6", "", "Yet thus it was: the Gem, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L8", "", "The Diadem, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L6", "", "The ring enclosing all ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "That stood upon this earthly ball,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L8", "", "The Heavenly eye, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L6", "", "Much wider than the sky, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Wherein they all included were, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L5", "", "The glorious Soul, that was the King ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Made to possess them, did appear", "") ?>
PoemLine("L6", "", "A small and little thing! ", "") ?>
Poet("Thomas Traherne", "1637?–1674") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>