StoryTitle("caps", "My Old Kentucky Home") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PagePoem(136, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The sun shines bright in the old Kentucky home;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "'Tis summer, the darkeys are gay;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The corn-top's ripe, and the meadow's in the bloom,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "While the birds make music all the day.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The young folks roll on the little cabin floor,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "All merry, all happy and bright;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "By-'n'-by hard times comes a-knocking at the door:—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Then my old Kentucky home, good-night!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Weep no more, my lady,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "O, weep no more to-day!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "We will sing one song for the old Kentucky home,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "For the old Kentucky home, far away.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "They hunt no more for the 'possum and the coon,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "On the meadow, the hill, and the shore;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "They sing no more by the glimmer of the moon,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "On the bench by the old cabin door.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The day goes by like a shadow o'er the heart,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "With sorrow, where all was delight;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The time has come when the darkeys have to part:—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Then my old Kentucky home, good-night!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The head must bow, and the back will have to bend,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Wherever the darkey may go;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "A few more days, and the trouble all will end,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "In the field where the sugar-canes grow.", "") ?>
PagePoem(137, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "A few more days for to tote the weary load,—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "No matter, 'twill never be light;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "A few more days till we totter on the road:—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Then my old Kentucky home, good-night!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Weep no more, my lady,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "O, weep no more to-day!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "We will sing one song for the old Kentucky home,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "For the old Kentucky home, far away.", "") ?>
PoemAttribution("100", SmallCapsText("Stephen Collins Foster.")) ?>
PoemEnd() ?>