StoryTitle("caps", "The Rosebud") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Queen of fragrance, lovely Rose, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The beauties of thy leaves disclose! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "—But thou, fair Nymph, thyself survey ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "In this sweet offspring of a day. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "That miracle of face must fail, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Thy charms are sweet, but charms are frail: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Swift as the short-lived flower they fly, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "At morn they bloom, at evening die: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Though Sickness yet a while forbears, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Yet Time destroys what Sickness spares: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Now Helen lives alone in fame, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And Cleopatra's but a name: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Time must indent that heavenly brow, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And thou must be what they are now.", "") ?>
Poet("William Broome", "1689–1745") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>