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StoryTitle("caps", "Rain, Wind, and Snow") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PagePoem(40, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Do you see the dropping rain,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Pitter-patter on the pane?", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "How it runs along the street!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And it wets our little feet;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But it makes the green grass grow,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And the tiny streamlets flow.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Listen to the wintry blast", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Moaning, shrieking howling past,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Striking with tremendous force", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Rocks and forests in its course;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But it blows the windmills strong,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And it sends big ships along.", "") ?>
PagePoem(41, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Watch the pretty snowflakes fall,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Some are large and some are small;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Look, they cover all the ground,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Miles of dazzling white around;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But this covering, I am told,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Keeps the earth from frost and cold.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Ah! and I must work alway,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Life's not meant to spend in play;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Every moment's fleeting fast,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And our day will soon be past;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "If our work is truly done,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "It will last though ages run.", "") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>
Of what use is rain? Of what use is snow? Of what use is wind?
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