StoryTitle("caps", "Road-Song of the Bandar-Log ") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Here we go in a flung festoon,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Half-way up to the jealous moon!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Don't you envy our pranceful bands?", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Don't you wish you had extra hands?", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Wouldn't you like if your tails were—so—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Curved in the shape of a Cupid's bow?", "") ?>
PoemLine("L1", "", " Now you're angry, but—never mind,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L1", "", " Brother, thy tail hangs down behind!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Here we sit in a branchy row,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Thinking of beautiful things we know;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Dreaming of deeds that we mean to do,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "All complete, in a minute or two—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Something noble and wise and good,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Done by merely wishing we could.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L1", "", " We've forgotten, but—never mind,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L1", "", " Brother, thy tail hangs down behind!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "All the talk we ever have heard", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Uttered by bat or beast or bird—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Hide or fin or scale or feather—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Jabber it quickly and all together!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Excellent! Wonderful! Once again!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Now we are talking just like men!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L1", "", " Let's pretend we are ... never mind,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L1", "", " Brother, thy tail hangs down behind!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L1", "", " This is the way of the Monkey-kind.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Then join our leaping lines that scumfish through the pines,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "That rocket by where, light and high, the wild grape swings.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "By the rubbish in our wake, and the noble noise we make,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Be sure, be sure, we're going to do some splendid things!", "") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>