StoryTitle("caps", "The Dying Christian to His Soul ") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Vital spark of heav'nly flame! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Quit, O quit this mortal frame: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Trembling, hoping, ling'ring, flying, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "O the pain, the bliss of dying! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Cease, fond Nature, cease thy strife,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And let me languish into life. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Hark! they whisper; angels say, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Sister Spirit, come away! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "What is this absorbs me quite? ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Steals my senses, shuts my sight,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Drowns my spirits, draws my breath? ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Tell me, my soul, can this be death? ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The world recedes; it disappears! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Heav'n opens on my eyes! my ears ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "With sounds seraphic ring!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Lend, lend your wings! I mount! I fly! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "O Grave! where is thy victory? ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "O Death! where is thy sting?", "") ?>
Poet("Alexander Pope", "1688–1744") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>