StoryTitle("caps", "Song") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The merchant, to secure his treasure,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Conveys it in a borrow'd name:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Euphelia serves to grace my measure;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "But Chloe is my real flame.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "My softest verse, my darling lyre,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Upon Euphelia's toilet lay;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "When Chloe noted her desire", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "That I should sing, that I should play.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "My lyre I tune, my voice I raise;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "But with my numbers mix my sighs: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And while I sing Euphelia's praise,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "I fix my soul on Chloe's eyes.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Fair Chloe blush'd: Euphelia frown'd:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "I sung, and gazed: I play'd, and trembled:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And Venus to the Loves around ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Remark'd, how ill we all dissembled.", "") ?>
Poet("Matthew Prior", "1664–1721") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>