StoryTitle("caps", "Elf and Dormouse") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Under a toadstool ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Crept a wee Elf, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Out of the rain", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "To shelter himself.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Under the toadstool, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Sound asleep,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Sat a big Dormouse ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "All in a heap.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Trembled the wee Elf ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Frightened, and yet ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Fearing to fly away ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Lest he get wet.", "") ?>
PagePoem(58, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To the next shelter ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Maybe a mile ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Sudden the wee Elf ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Smiled a wee smile.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Tugged till the toadstool ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Toppled in two ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Holding it over him ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Gayly he flew.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Soon he was safe home, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Dry as could be.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Soon woke the Dormouse ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2DQ", "", "\"Good gracious me!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Where is my toadstool!\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Loud he lamented,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And that's how umbrellas ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "First were invented.", "") ?>
PoemAttribution("85", SmallCapsText("—Oliver Herford.")) ?>
PoemEnd() ?>
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