StoryTitle("caps", "The Nightingale and the Glow-Worm") ?> Nightingale," by William Cowper (1731-1800), is a favourite with a teacher of good taste, and I include it at her request.
PoemStart() ?> PoemLine("L0", "", "A nightingale, that all day long", "") ?> PoemLine("L0", "", "Had cheered the village with his song,", "") ?> PoemLine("L0", "", "Nor yet at eve his note suspended,", "") ?> PoemLine("L0", "", "Nor yet when eventide was ended,", "") ?> PoemLine("L0", "", "Began to feel, as well he might,", "") ?> PoemLine("L0", "", "The keen demands of appetite;", "") ?> PoemLine("L0", "", "When, looking eagerly around,", "") ?> PoemLine("L0", "", "He spied far off, upon the ground,", "") ?> PagePoem(35, "L0", "") ?> PoemLine("L0", "", "A something shining in the dark,", "") ?> PoemLine("L0", "", "And knew the glow-worm by his spark;", "") ?> PoemLine("L0", "", "So, stooping down from hawthorn top,", "") ?> PoemLine("L0", "", "He thought to put him in his crop.", "") ?> PoemLine("L0", "", "The worm, aware of his intent,", "") ?> PoemLine("L0", "", "Harangued him thus, right eloquent:", "") ?> PoemLine("L0", "", "\"Did you admire my lamp,\" quoth he,", "") ?> PoemLine("L0", "", "\"As much as I your minstrelsy,", "") ?> PoemLine("L0", "", "You would abhor to do me wrong,", "") ?> PoemLine("L0", "", "As much as I to spoil your song;", "") ?> PoemLine("L0", "", "For 'twas the self-same power divine,", "") ?> PoemLine("L0", "", "Taught you to sing and me to shine;", "") ?> PoemLine("L0", "", "That you with music, I with light,", "") ?> PoemLine("L0", "", "Might beautify and cheer the night.\"", "") ?> PoemLine("L0", "", "The songster heard his short oration,", "") ?> PoemLine("L0", "", "And warbling out his approbation,", "") ?> PoemLine("L0", "", "Released him, as my story tells,", "") ?> PoemLine("L0", "", "And found a supper somewhere else.", "") ?>