StoryTitle("caps", "Song of Life") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "A traveller on a dusty road", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Strewed acorns on the lea;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And one took root and sprouted up,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And grew into a tree.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Love sought its shade at evening-time,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "To breathe its early vows;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And Age was pleased, in heights of noon,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "To bask beneath its boughs.", "") ?>
PagePoem(49, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The dormouse loved its dangling twigs,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "The birds sweet music bore—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "It stood a glory in its place,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "A blessing evermore.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "A little spring had lost its way", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Amid the grass and fern;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "A passing stranger scooped a well", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Where weary men might turn.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "He walled it in, and hung with care", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "A ladle on the brink;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "He thought not of the deed he did,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "But judged that Toil might drink.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "He passed again; and lo! the well,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "By summer never dried,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Had cooled ten thousand parchéd tongues,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And saved a life beside.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "A nameless man, amid the crowd", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "That thronged the daily mart,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Let fall a word of hope and love,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Unstudied from the heart,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "A whisper on the tumult thrown,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "A transitory breath,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "It raised a brother from the dust,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "It saved a soul from death.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "O germ! O fount! O word of love!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "O thought at random cast!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Ye were but little at the first,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "But mighty at the last.", "") ?>
PoemAttribution("100", SmallCapsText("Charles Mackay.")) ?>
PoemEnd() ?>