StoryTitle("caps", "Old Grimes") ?>
Grimes" is an heirloom, an antique gem. We learn it as a matter of
course for its sparkle and glow.
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Old Grimes is dead; that good old man,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "We ne'er shall see him more;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "He used to wear a long, black coat,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "All buttoned down before.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "His heart was open as the day,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "His feelings all were true;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "His hair was some inclined to gray,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "He wore it in a queue.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "He lived at peace with all mankind,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "In friendship he was true;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "His coat had pocket-holes behind,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "His pantaloons were blue.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "He modest merit sought to find,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And pay it its desert;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "He had no malice in his mind,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "No ruffles on his shirt.", "") ?>
PagePoem(48, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "His neighbours he did not abuse,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Was sociable and gay;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "He wore large buckles on his shoes,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And changed them every day.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "His knowledge, hid from public gaze,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "He did not bring to view,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Nor make a noise town-meeting days,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "As many people do.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "His worldly goods he never threw", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "In trust to fortune's chances,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But lived (as all his brothers do)", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "In easy circumstances.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Thus undisturbed by anxious cares", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "His peaceful moments ran;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And everybody said he was", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "A fine old gentleman.", "") ?>
PoemAttribution("100", SmallCapsText("Albert Gorton Greene.")) ?>
PoemEnd() ?>