DisplayImage("text", "zpage050", "
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StoryTitle("caps", "The Dustman") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PagePoem(50, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "When the toys are growing weary; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And the twilight gathers in, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "When the nursery still re-echoes ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "With the children's merry din;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Then unseen, unheard, unnoticed, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Comes an old man up the stair, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Lightly to the children passes, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Lays his hand upon their hair.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Softly smiles the good old Dustman, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "In their eyes the dust he throws, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Till their little heads are falling ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And their eyelids gently close.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Then the Dustman very gently ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Takes each little dimpled hand, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Leads them through the sweet green shadows, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Far away to Slumberland.", "") ?>
PoemAttribution("85", SmallCapsText("—Fred E. Weatherly.")) ?>
PoemEnd() ?>