StoryTitle("caps", "On a Fly Drinking Out of His Cup") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Busy, curious, thirsty fly! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Drink with me and drink as I: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Freely welcome to my cup, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Couldst thou sip and sip it up: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Make the most of life you may, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Life is short and wears away. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Both alike are mine and thine ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Hastening quick to their decline: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Thine's a summer, mine's no more, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Though repeated to threescore. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Threescore summers, when they're gone, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Will appear as short as one!", "") ?>
Poet("William Oldys", "1687–1761") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>