StoryTitle("caps", "The Sad Day") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "O the sad day! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "When friends shall shake their heads, and say ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Of miserable me— ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"Hark, how he groans! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Look, how he pants for breath! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "See how he struggles with the pangs of death!\" ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "When they shall say of these dear eyes— ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"How hollow, O how dim they be! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Mark how his breast doth rise and swell ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Against his potent enemy!\" ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "When some old friend shall step to my bedside, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Touch my chill face, and thence shall gently slide. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But—when his next companions say ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"How does he do? What hopes?\"—shall turn away, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Answering only, with a lift-up hand— ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"Who can his fate withstand?\" ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Then shall a gasp or two do more ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Than e'er my rhetoric could before: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Persuade the world to trouble me no more!", "") ?>
Poet("Thomas Flatman", "1637–1688") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>