StoryTitle("caps", "Love and Life") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "All my past life is mine no more;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "The flying hours are gone,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Like transitory dreams given o'er,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Whose images are kept in store", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "By memory alone.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The time that is to come is not;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "How can it then be mine?", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The present moment's all my lot;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And that, as fast as it is got,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Phillis, is only thine. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Then talk not of inconstancy,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "False hearts, and broken vows;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "If I by miracle can be", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "This live-long minute true to thee,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2SQ", "", "'Tis all that Heaven allows. ", "") ?>
Poet("John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester", "1647–1680") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>