StoryTitle("caps", "On One Who Died Discovering Her Kindness ") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Some vex their souls with jealous pain, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "While others sigh for cold disdain: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Love's various slaves we daily see— ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Yet happy all compared with me! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Of all mankind I loved the best ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "A nymph so far above the rest ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "That we outshined the Blest above; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "In beauty she, as I in love. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And therefore They, who could not bear ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To be outdone by mortals here, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Among themselves have placed her now, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And left me wretched here below. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "All other fate I could have borne, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And even endured her very scorn; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But oh! thus all at once to find ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "That dread account—both dead and kind! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "What heart can hold? If yet I live, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0SQ", "", "'Tis but to show how much I grieve.", "") ?>
Poet("John Sheffield, Duke of Buckinghamshire", "1649–1720") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>