StoryTitle("caps", "L For Lady") ?>
InitialWords(0, "L was a lady, ", "smallcaps", "dropcap", "noindent") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L6", "", "Advancing in Age,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Who drove in her carriage and six,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "With a Couple of Footmen a Coachman and Page, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Who were all of them regular bricks.", "") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>
DisplayImage("text", "zpage031", "
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PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "If the Coach ran away, or was smashed by a Dray, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Or got into collisions and blocks,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The Page, with a courtesy rare for his years, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Would leap to the ground with inspiriting cheers, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "While the Footman allayed her legitimate fears,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And the Coachman sat tight on his box.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "At night as they met round an excellent meal, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "They would take it in turn to observe:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "\"What a Lady indeed! . . . what a presence to feel! . . .\" ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "\"What a Woman to worship and serve! . . .\"", "") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>
DisplayImage("text", "zpage032", "
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PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But, perhaps, the most poignant of all their delights ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Was to stand in a rapturous Dream", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "When she spoke to them kindly on Saturday Nights, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And said \"They deserved her Esteem.\"", "") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>
subtitle ("smallcaps", "Moral")?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Now observe the Reward of these dutiful lives:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "At the end of their Loyal Career", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "They each had a Lodge at the end of the drives,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And she left them a Hundred a Year. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Remember from this to be properly vexed", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "When the newspaper editors say,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "That \"The type of society shown in the Text", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "\"Is rapidly passing away.\"", "") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>