StoryTitle("caps", "The Snow Bird") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PagePoem(80, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The ground was all covered with snow one day, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And two little sisters were busy at play", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "When a snow bird was sitting close by on a tree, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And merrily singing his chick-a-de-dee, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Chick-a-de-dee, chick-a-de-dee,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And merrily singing his chick-a-de-dee.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "He had not been singing his tune very long ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Ere Emily heard him, so loud was his song; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"Oh, sister, look out of the window,\" said she. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"Here's a dear little bird singing chick-a-de-dee, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Chick-a-de-dee, chick-a-de-dee,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Here's a dear little bird singing chick-a-de-dee.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"Oh, mother, do get him some stockings and shoes, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And a nice little frock, and a hat if he choose,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I wish he'd come into the parlor and see", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "How warm we would make him, poor chick-a-de-dee. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Chick-a-de-dee, chick-a-de-dee.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "How warm we would make him, poor chick-a-de-dee.\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"There is One, my dear child, though I cannot tell who, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Has clothed me already, and warm enough, too; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Good-morning! Oh, who are as happy as we?\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And away he went singing his chick-a-de-dee; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Chick-a-de-dee, chick-a-de-dee;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And away he went singing his chick-a-de-dee.", "") ?>
PoemAttribution("85", SmallCapsText("—F. C. Woodworth.")) ?>
PoemEnd() ?>