StoryTitle("caps", "Old Dame Cricket") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PagePoem(59, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Old Dame Cricket, down in a thicket, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Brought up her children nine,—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Queer little chaps, in glossy black caps ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And brown little suits so fine.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2DQ", "", "\"My children,\" she said, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2DQ", "", "\"The birds are abed:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Go and make the dark earth glad! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Chirp while you can!\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And then she began,—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Till, oh, what a concert they had!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "They hopped with delight, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "They chirped all night, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Singing, \"Cheer up! cheer up! cheer!\" ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Old Dame Cricket,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Down in the thicket,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Sat awake till dawn to hear.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2DQ", "", "\"Nice children,\" she said, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2DQ", "", "\"And very well bred.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "My darlings have done their best. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Their naps they must take:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "The birds are awake;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And they can sing all the rest.\"", "") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>