StoryTitle("caps", "The Leaves and The Wind. ") ?>
DisplayImage("text", "zpage131", "
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PoemStart() ?>
PagePoem(131, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "\"Come, little leaves,\" said the wind one day, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "\"Come o'er the meadow with me and play;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Put on your dresses of red and gold—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Summer is gone, and the days grow cold.\" ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Soon as the leaves heard the wind's loud call, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Down they came fluttering, one and all;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Over the brown fields they danced and few, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Singing the soft, little songs that they knew: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "\"Cricket, good-by, we've been friends so long! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Little brook, sing us your parting song—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Say you are sorry to see us go;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Ah, you will miss us, right well we know. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "\"Dear little lambs, in your fleecy fold, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Mother will keep you from harm and cold; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Fondly we've watched you in vale and glade; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Say, will you dream of our loving shade?\" ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Dancing and whirling the little leaves went; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Winter had called them, and they were content. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Soon fast asleep in their earthly beds,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The snow laid a coverlet over their heads.", "") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>