StoryTitle("caps", "On the Death of a Particular Friend ") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "As those we love decay, we die in part, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "String after string is sever'd from the heart; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Till loosen'd life, at last but breathing clay, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Without one pang is glad to fall away. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Unhappy he who latest feels the blow! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Whose eyes have wept o'er every friend laid low, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Dragg'd ling'ring on from partial death to death, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Till, dying, all he can resign is—breath. ", "") ?>
Poet("James Thomson", "1700–1748") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>