StoryTitle("caps", "Constancy") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I cannot change as others do,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Though you unjustly scorn;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Since that poor swain that sighs for you", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "For you alone was born.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "No, Phillis, no; your heart to move", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "A surer way I'll try;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And, to revenge my slighted love,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Will still love on and die.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "When kill'd with grief Amyntas lies,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And you to mind shall call ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The sighs that now unpitied rise,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "The tears that vainly fall—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "That welcome hour, that ends this smart,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Will then begin your pain;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "For such a faithful tender heart", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Can never break in vain.", "") ?>
Poet("John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester", "1647–1680") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>