StoryTitle("caps", "Father Time.") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Once on a time, the days of the week ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Quarreled and made bad weather; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "They wanted to know which one was best ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And so they disputed together.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Monday said, \"I wash the clothes;\" ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Tuesday said, \"I iron them;\" ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Wednesday said, \"I bake the cakes;\" ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Thursday said, \"I try them.\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Said Friday, \"I'm the day for fish;\" ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Said Saturday, \"The children love me;\" ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Said Sunday, \"I'm the Sabbath day,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "I'm sure there's none above me.\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Now as they quarreled a tempest arose, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And all of them screamed together;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "It blew and rained and hailed and snowed—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "There never was such weather.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Old Father Time was passing by, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And heard the hurly burly. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Said he, \"I hear something wrong; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "It's well I got up early.\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Then all the days began to tell ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Their virtue with great clatter. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But Father Time cut them short—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "\"My children, what great matter? ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Your natural gifts are all the same, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Each day has its own beauty;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "That day is best whose deeds are best, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "That worst that fails in duty.\"", "") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>