StoryTitle("caps", "Rivals ") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Of all the torments, all the cares, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "With which our lives are curst; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Of all the plagues a lover bears, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Sure rivals are the worst! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "By partners in each other kind", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Afflictions easier grow; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "In love alone we hate to find ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Companions of our woe. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Sylvia, for all the pangs you see ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Are labouring in my breast,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I beg not you would favour me, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Would you but slight the rest! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "How great soe'er your rigours are, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "With them alone I'll cope; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I can endure my own despair,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "But not another's hope.", "") ?>
Poet("William Walsh", "1663–1708") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>