StoryTitle("caps", "White Horses") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PagePoem(1, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I saw them plunging through the foam, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "I saw them prancing up the shore—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "A thousand horses, row on row,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And then a thousand more!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "In joy they leaped upon the land, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "In joy they fled before the wind, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Prancing and plunging on they raced, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "The huntsman raced behind.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "When this old huntsman goes to sleep,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "The horses live beneath the waves; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "They live at peace, and rest in peace, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Deep in their sea green caves.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But when they hear the huntsman's shout ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Urging his hounds across the sea,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Out from their caves in frenzied fear ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "The great white horses flee!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To-day they plunged right through the foam, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "To-day they pranced right up the shore,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "A thousand horses, row on row, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And then a thousand more.", "") ?>
PoemAttribution("85", SmallCapsText("—Hamish Hendry.")) ?>
PoemEnd() ?>
StoryTitle("caps", "The World of Wonder") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PagePoem(2, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Heart free, hand free, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Blue above, brown under, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "All the world to me ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Is a place of wonder. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Sunshine, moonshine,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Stars, and winds a-blowing, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "All into this heart of mine ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Flowing, flowing, flowing! ", "") ?>
PoemAttribution("85", SmallCapsText("—William Stanley Braithwaite")) ?>
PoemEnd() ?>
StoryTitle("caps", "Gaelic Lullaby") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Hush the waves are rolling in,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "White with foam, white with foam;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Father toils amid the din;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "But baby sleeps at home.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Hush the winds roar hoarse and deep,—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "On they come, on they come!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Brother seeks the wandering sheep;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "But baby sleeps at home.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Hush! the rain sweeps o'er the knowes,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Where they roam, where they roam;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Sister goes to seek the cows;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "But baby sleeps at home.", "") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>
StoryTitle("caps", "The Windy Night") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PagePoem(3, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Alow and aloof,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Over the roof,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "How the midnight tempests howl!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "With a dreary voice, like the dismal tune", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Of wolves that bay at the desert moon;—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Or whistle and shriek", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Through limbs that creak,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2DQ", "", "\"Tu-who! tu-whit!\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "They cry and flit,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"Tu-whit! tu-who!\" like the solemn owl!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Alow and aloof,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Over the roof,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Sweep the moaning winds amain,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And wildly dash", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "The elm and ash,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Clattering on the window-sash,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "With a clatter and patter,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Like hail and rain", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "That well nigh shatter", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "The dusky pane!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Alow and aloof", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Over the roof,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "How the tempests swell and roar!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Though no foot is astir,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Though the cat and the cur", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Lie dozing along the kitchen floor,", "") ?>
PagePoem(4, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "There are feet of air ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "On every stair—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Through every hall, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Through every gusty door, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "There's a jostle and bustle, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "With a silken rustle,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Like the meeting of guests at a festival!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Alow and aloof, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Over the roof, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "How the stormy tempests swell!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And make the vane ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "On the spire complain; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "They heave at the steeple with might and main, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And burst and sweep", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Into the belfry, on the bell!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "They smite it so hard, and they smite it so well, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "That the sexton tosses his arms in sleep, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And dreams he is ringing a funeral knell!", "") ?>
PoemAttribution("85", SmallCapsText("—Thomas Buchanan Read.")) ?>
PoemEnd() ?>
StoryTitle("caps", "The Brook")?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I chatter over stony ways, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "In little sharps and trebles, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I bubble into eddying bays, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "I babble on the pebbles.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I chatter, chatter, as I flow", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "To join the brimming river, ", "") ?>
PagePoem(5, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "For men may come and men may go, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "But I go on forever.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I steal by lawns and grassy plots, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "I slide by hazel covers;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I move the sweet forget-me-nots ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "That grow for happy lovers.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I ship, I slide, I gloom, I glance, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Among my skimming swallows; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I make the netted sunbeam dance ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Against my sandy shallows.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And out again I curve and flow. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "To join the brimming river, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "For men may come and men may go, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "But I go on forever.", "") ?>
PoemAttribution("85", SmallCapsText("—Alfred Tennyson.")) ?>
PoemEnd() ?>
StoryTitle("caps", "On the Desert")?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "All around,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "To the bound", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Of the vast horizon's round, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "All sand, sand, sand—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "All burning, glaring sand—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "On my camel's hump I ride, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "As he sways from side to side, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "With an awkward step of pride, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And his scraggy head uplifted, and his eye ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "So long and bland.", "") ?>
PagePoem(6, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Naught is near,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "In the blear", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And the simmering atmosphere,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But the shadow on the sand,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The shadow of the camel on the side;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "All alone as I ride", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "O'er the desert's ocean wide,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "It is ever at my side;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "It haunts me, it pursues me, if I flee or if I stand.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Not a sound", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "All around", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Save the paddled heat and bound", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Of the camel on the sand", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Of the feet of the camel on the sand.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Not a bird is in the air,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Though the sun, with burning stare,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Is prying everywhere,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "O'er the yellow thirsty desert, so", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Desolately grand.", "") ?>
PoemAttribution("85", SmallCapsText("—William Wetmore Story.")) ?>
PoemEnd() ?>
StoryTitle("caps", "The Owlet") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PagePoem(7, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "When dusk is drowned in drowsy dreams,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And slow the hues of sunset die;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "When firefly and moth go by,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And in still streams the new moon seems", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Another moon and sky:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Then from the hills there comes a cry,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "The owlet's cry:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "A shivering voice that sobs and screams,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "With terror screams:—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"Who is it, who is it, who-o-o?", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Who rides through the dusk and dew,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "With a pair of horns,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "As thin as thorns,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And face a bubble-blue?—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Who, who, who!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Who is it, who is it, who-o-o?\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "When night has dulled the lily's white,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And opened the moonflower's eyes;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "When pale mists rise and veil the skies,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And round the height in whispering flight", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "The night-wind sounds and sighs:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Then in the wood again it cries,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "The owlet cries:", "") ?>
PagePoem(8, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "A shivering voice that calls in fright, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "In maundering fright:—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"Who is it, who is it, who-o-o? ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Who walks with a shuffling shoe ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "'Mid the gusty trees,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "With a face none sees,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And a form as ghostly, too?—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Who, who, who!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Who is it, who is it, who-o-o?\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "When midnight leans a listening ear ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And tinkles on her insect lutes;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "When 'mid the roots the cricket flutes, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And marsh and mere, now far, now near, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "A jack o'lantern foots:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Then o'er the pool again it hoots: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "The owlet hoots:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "A voice that shivers as with fear, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "That cries with fear:—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"Who is it, who is it, who-o-o?", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Who creeps with his glow-worm crew ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Above the mire", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "With a corpse-like fire,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "As only dead men do?—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Who, who, who!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Who is it, who is it, who-o-o?\"", "") ?>
PoemAttribution("85", SmallCapsText("—Madison Cawein.")) ?>
PoemEnd() ?>
StoryTitle("caps", "A Canadian Folk-Song") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PagePoem(9, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The doors are shut, the windows fast,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Outside the gust is driving past,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Outside the shivering ivy clings,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "While on the hob the kettle sings.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Margery, Margery, make the tea,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Singeth the kettle merrily.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The streams are hushed up where they flowed, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The ponds are frozen along the road,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The cattle are housed in shed and byre, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "While singeth the kettle on the fire. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Margery, Margery, make the tea, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Singeth the kettle merrily.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The fisherman on the bay in his boat ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Shivers and buttons up his coat;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The traveler stops at the tavern door,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And the kettle answers the chimney's roar. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Margery, Margery, make the tea, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Singeth the kettle merrily.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The firelight dances upon the wall, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Footsteps are heard in the outer hall, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And a kiss and a welcome that fill the room, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And the kettle sings in the glimmer and gloom. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Margery, Margery, make the tea,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Singeth the kettle merrily.", "") ?>
PoemAttribution("85", SmallCapsText("—William Wilfred Campbell.")) ?>
PoemEnd() ?>
StoryTitle("caps", "An Old Song Re-Sung") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PagePoem(10, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I saw a ship a-sailing, a-sailing, a-sailing,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "With emeralds and rubies and sapphires in her hold; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And a bosun in a blue coat bawling at the railing, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Piping through a silver call that had a chain of gold; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The summer wind was failing and the tall ship rolled.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I saw a ship a-steering, a-steering, a-steering, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "With roses in red thread worked up in her sails; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "With sacks of purple amethysts, the spoils of buccaneering,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Skins and musky yellow, wine, and silks in bales, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Her merry men were cheering, hauling on the brails.", "") ?>
PoemAttribution("85", SmallCapsText("—John Masefield.")) ?>
PoemEnd() ?>
StoryTitle("caps", "Robert of Lincoln") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Merrily swinging on brier and weed, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Near to the nest of his little dame, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Over the mountain-side or mead, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Robert of Lincoln is telling his name: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2DQ", "", "\"Bob-o'-link, bob-o'-link, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Spink, spank, spink;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Snug and safe is that nest of ours, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Hidden among the summer flowers, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Chee, chee, chee!\"", "") ?>
PagePoem(11, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Robert of Lincoln is gayly drest, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Wearing a bright black wedding coat; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "White are his shoulders and white his crest. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Hear him call in his merry note:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2DQ", "", "\"Bob-o'-link, bob-o'-link, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Spink, spank, spink;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Look, what a nice new coat is mine, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Sure there was never a bird so fine. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Chee, chee, chee!\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Robert of Lincoln's Quaker wife,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Pretty and quiet, with plain brown wings,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Passing at home a patient life,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Broods in the grass while her husband sings:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2DQ", "", "\"Bob-o'-link, bob-o'-link,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Spink, spank, spink;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Brood, kind creature; you need not fear ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Thieves and robbers while I am here. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Chee, chee, chee!\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Modest and shy as a nun is she; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "One weak chirp is her only note, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Braggart and prince of braggart is he, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Pouring boasts from his little throat:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2DQ", "", "\"Bob-o'-link, bob-o'-link, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Spink, spank, spink; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Never was I afraid of man; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Catch me, cowardly knaves, if you can! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Chee, chee, chee!\"", "") ?>
PagePoem(12, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Six white eggs on a bed of hay, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Flecked with purple, a pretty sight! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "There, as the mother sits all day, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Robert is singing with all his might", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2DQ", "", "\"Bob-o'-link, bob-o'-link, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Spink, spank, spink;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Nice good wife that never goes out, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Keeping house while I frolic about. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Chee, chee, chee!\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Soon as the little ones chip the shell, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Six wide mouths are open for food; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Robert of Lincoln bestirs him well, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Gathering seeds for the hungry brood. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2DQ", "", "\"Bob-o'-link, bob-o'-link, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Spink, spank, spink; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Nobody knows but my mate and I ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Where our nest and our nestlings lie. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Chee, chee, chee!\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Summer wanes; the children are grown; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Fun and frolic no more he knows; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Robert of Lincoln's a humdrum crone; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Off he flies, and we sing as he goes:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2DQ", "", "\"Bob-o'-link, bob-o'-link, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Spink, spank, spink;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "When you can pipe that merry old strain, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Robert of Lincoln, come back again. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Chee, chee, chee!\"", "") ?>
PoemAttribution("85", SmallCapsText("—William Cullen Bryant.")) ?>
PoemEnd() ?>
StoryTitle("caps", "Out in the Cold") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PagePoem(13, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Out in the cold,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "With a thin-worn fold ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Of withered gold ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Around her rolled, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Hangs in the air the weary moon. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "She is old, old, old;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And her bones all cold, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And her tales all told,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And her things all sold, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "She has no breath to croon.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Like a castaway,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "She is quite shut out! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "She might call and shout ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "But no one about", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Would ever call back, \"Who's there!\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "There is never a hut", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Not a door to shut, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Not a footpath or rut ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Long road or short cut, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Leading to anywhere!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "She is all alone", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Like a dog-picked bone, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "The poor old crone ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "She fain would groan, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But she cannot find the breath.", "") ?>
PagePoem(14, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "She once had a fire;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "But she built it no higher, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And only sat nigher", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Till she saw it expire;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And now she is cold as death.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "She never will smile ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "All the lonesome while. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Oh, the mile after mile, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And never a stile!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And never a tree or a stone! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "She has not a tear:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Afar and anear ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "It is all so drear, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "But she does not care,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Her heart is as dry as a bone.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "None to come near her! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "No one to cheer her! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "No one to jeer her!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "No one to hear her!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Not a thing to lift and hold!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "She is always awake", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "But her heart will not break: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "She can only quake,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Shiver, and shake:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The old woman is very cold.", "") ?>
PoemAttribution("85", SmallCapsText("—George MacDonald.")) ?>
PoemEnd() ?>
StoryTitle("caps", "Milking Song") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PagePoem(15, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2DQ", "", "\"Cusha! Cusha! Cusha!\" calling, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Ere the early dews were falling, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Farre away I heard her song.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2DQ", "", "\"Cusha! Cusha!\" all along; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Where the reedy Lindis floweth, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L8", "", "Floweth, floweth, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "From the meads where melick groweth ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Faintly came her milking song,—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2DQ", "", "\"Cusha! Cusha! Cusha!\" calling, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2DQ", "", "\"For the dews will soon be falling;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Leave your meadow grasses mellow, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L8", "", "Mellow, mellow;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Quit your cowslips, cowslips yellow;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Come uppe Whitefoot, come uppe Lightfoot,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", " Quit the stalks of parsley hollow,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L8", "", "Hollow, hollow; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Come uppe Jetty, rise and follow,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "From the clovers lift your head;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Come uppe Whitefoot, come uppe Lightfoot,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Come uppe Jetty, rise and follow,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Jetty, to the milking shed.\"", "") ?>
PoemAttribution("85", SmallCapsText("—Jean Ingelow.")) ?>
PoemEnd() ?>
StoryTitle("caps", "Scythe Song") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PagePoem(16, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Mowers, weary and brown and blithe, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "What is the word methinks ye know, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Endless over-word that the Scythe ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Sings to the blades of grass below? ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Scythes that swing in the grass and clover, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Something still they say as they pass; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "What is the word that, over and over,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Sings the Scythe to the flowers and grass? ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Hush, ah hush, the Scythes are saying, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Hush, and heed not, and fall asleep;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Hush, they say to the grasses swaying, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Hush, they sing to the clover deep! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Hush—'tis the lullaby Time is singing—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Hush, and heed not, for all things pass.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Hush, ah hush! and the Scythes are swinging ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Over the clover, over the grass!", "") ?>
PoemAttribution("85", SmallCapsText("—Andrew Lang.")) ?>
PoemEnd() ?>
StoryTitle("caps", "White Butterflies") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Fly, white butterflies, out to sea, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Frail pale wings for the wind to try, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Small white wings that we scarce can see, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L6", "", "Fly.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Some fly light as a laugh of glee, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Some fly soft as a low long sigh; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "All to the haven where each would be,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L6", "", "Fly.", "") ?>
PoemAttribution("85", SmallCapsText("—Algernon Charles Swinburne.")) ?>
PoemEnd() ?>
StoryTitle("caps", "The Green Gnome") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PagePoem(17, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Ring, sing! ring, sing! pleasant Sabbath bells!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Chime, rime! chime, rime! through dales and dells! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Rime, ring! chime, sing! pleasant Sabbath bells!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Chime, sing! rime, ring! over fields and fells!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And I galloped and I galloped on my palfrey white as milk,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "My robe was of the sea-green woof, my serk was of silk; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "My hair was golden yellow, and it floated to my shoe, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "My eyes were like two harebells bathed in little drops of dew;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "My palfrey, never stopping, made a music sweetly blent ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "With the leaves of autumn dropping all around me as I went;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And I heard the bells, grown fainter, far behind me peal and play,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Fainter, fainter, fainter, till they seemed to die away; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And beside a silver runnel, on a little heap of sand,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I saw the green gnome sitting, with his cheek upon his hand.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Then he started up to see me, and he ran with cry and bound,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And drew me from my palfrey white and set me on the ground.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Oh crimson, crimson were his locks, his face was green to see,", "") ?>
PagePoem(18, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But he cried, \"O light-haired lassie; you are bound to marry me!\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "He clasped me round the middle small, he kissed, me on the cheek,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "He kissed me once, he kissed me twice—I could not stir or speak.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "He kissed me twice, he kissed me thrice—but when he kissed again,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I called aloud upon the name of Him who died for men.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Sing, sing! ring, ring! pleasant Sabbath bells!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Chime, rime! chime, rime! through dales and dells! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Rime, ring! chime, sing! pleasant Sabbath bells! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Chime, sing! rime, ring! over fields and fells!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Oh faintly, faintly, faintly, calling men and maids to pray,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "So faintly, faintly, faintly rang the bells far away; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And as I named the Blessed Name, as in our need we can,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The ugly green green gnome became a tall and comely man;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "His hands were white, his beard was gold, his eyes were black as sloes,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "His tunic was of scarlet woof, and silken were his hose;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "A pensive light from Faëryland still lingered on his cheek,", "") ?>
PagePoem(19, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "His voice was like the running brook, when he began to speak:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"Oh, you have cast away the charm my stepdame put on me,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Seven years I dwelt in Faëryland, and you have set me free.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Oh, I will mount thy palfrey white, and ride to kirk with thee,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And, by those little dewy eyes, we twain will wedded be!\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Back we galloped, never stopping, he before and I behind,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And the autumn leaves were dropping, red and yellow, in the wind;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And the sun was shining clearer, and my heart was high and proud,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "As nearer, nearer, nearer, rang the kirk bells sweet and loud,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And we saw the kirk before us, as we trotted down the fells,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And nearer, clearer, o'er us, rang the welcome of the bells.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Ring, sing! ring, sing! pleasant Sabbath bells! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Chime, rime! chime, rime! through dales and dells! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Rime, ring! chime, sing! pleasant Sabbath bells! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Chime, sing! rime, ring! over fields and fells!", "") ?>
PoemAttribution("85", SmallCapsText("—Robert Buchanan.")) ?>
PoemEnd() ?>
StoryTitle("caps", "A Wet Sheet and a Flowing Sea") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PagePoem(20, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "A wet sheet and a flowing sea, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "A wind that follows fast,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And fills the white and rustling sail, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And bends the gallant mast;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And bends the gallant mast, my boys, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "While, like the eagle free,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Away the good ship flies, and leaves ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Old England on the lee.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"O for a soft and gentle wind!\" ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I heard a fair one cry;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But give to me the snoring breeze, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And white waves heaving high; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And white waves heaving high, my boys, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The good ship tight and free —", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The world of waters is our home, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And merry men are we.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "There's tempest in yon hornèd moon, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And lightning in yon cloud;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But hark the music, mariners—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The wind is piping loud;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The wind is piping loud, my boys, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The lightning flashes free—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "While the hollow oak our palace is, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Our heritage the sea.", "") ?>
PoemAttribution("85", SmallCapsText("—Allan Cunningham.")) ?>
PoemEnd() ?>
StoryTitle("caps", "Chanticleer") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PagePoem(21, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Of all the birds from East to West ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "That tuneful are and dear,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I love that farmyard bird the best, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "They call him Chanticleer.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Gold plume and copper plume, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Comb of scarlet gay;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "'Tis he that scatters night and gloom, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And whistles back the day!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "He is the sun's brave herald ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "That, ringing his blithe horn, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Calls round a world dew-pearled ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "The heavenly airs of morn.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "O clear gold, shrill and bold!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "He calls through creeping mist", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The mountains from the night and cold ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "To rose and amethyst.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "He sets the birds to singing, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And calls the flowers to rise; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The morning cometh, bringing ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Sweet sleep to heavy eyes.", "") ?>
PagePoem(22, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Gold plume and silver plume, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Comb of coral gay;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "'Tis he packs off the night and gloom, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And summons home the day! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Black fear he sends it flying, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Black care he drives afar; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And creeping shadows sighing ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Before the morning star.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The birds of all the forest", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Have dear and pleasant cheer, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But yet I hold the rarest", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "The farmyard Chanticleer.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Red cock or black cock, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Gold plume or white, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The flower of all the feathered flock, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "He whistles back the light!", "") ?>
PoemAttribution("85", SmallCapsText("—Katharine Tynan Hinkson.")) ?>
PoemEnd() ?>
StoryTitle("caps", "Verse") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Now rings the woodland loud and long, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "The distance takes a lovelier hue, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And drowned in yonder living blue, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "The lark becomes a sightless song.", "") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>
StoryTitle("caps", "Daffodil") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PagePoem(23, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Who passes down the wintry street?", "") ?>
PoemLine("L3", "", "Hey, ho, Daffodil!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "A sudden flame of gold and sweet.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "With sword of emerald girt so meet ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And golden gay from head to feet.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "How are you here this wintry day? ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L3", "", "Hey, ho, Daffodil!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Your radiant fellows yet delay.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "No wind-flower dances scarlet gay, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Nor crocus flame lights up the way.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "What land of cloth o' gold and green, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L3", "", "Hey, ho, Daffodil!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Cloth o' gold with the green between,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Was that you left but yestere'en ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To light a gloomy world and mean?", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "King trumpeter to Flora queen, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L3", "", "Hey, ho, Daffodil!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Blow, and the golden jousts begin.", "") ?>
PoemAttribution("85", SmallCapsText("—Katharine Tynan Hinkson.")) ?>
PoemEnd() ?>
StoryTitle("caps", "The Pine Lady") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PagePoem(24, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "O have you seen the Pine Lady, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Or heard her how she sings? ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Have you heard her play ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Your soul away", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "On a harp with moonbeam strings? ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "In a palace all of the night-black pine ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "She hides like a queen all day,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Till a moonbeam knocks on her secret tree, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And she opens her door with a silver key ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "While the village clocks", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Are striking bed ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Nine times sleepily.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "O come and hear the Pine Lady, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Up in the haunted wood!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The stars are rising, the moths are flitting, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The owls are calling,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The dew is falling; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And, high in the boughs ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Of her haunted house ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The moon and she are sitting.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Out on the moor the night-jar drones ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Rough-throated love,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The beetle comes", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "With his sudden drums", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And many a silent unseen thing", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Frightens your cheek with its ghostly wing;", "") ?>
PagePoem(25, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "While there above,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "In a palace builded of needles and cones, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The pine is telling the moon her love, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Telling her love on the moonbeam strings—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "O have you seen the Pine Lady?", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Or heard her how she sings!", "") ?>
PoemAttribution("85", SmallCapsText("—Richard Le Gallienne.")) ?>
PoemEnd() ?>
StoryTitle("caps", "Song of Illyrian Peasants") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Up, up, ye dames, ye lassies gay ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To the meadows trip away.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "'Tis you must tend the flock this morn ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And scare the small birds from the corn ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Not a soul at home may stay.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "For the shepherds must go ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "With lance and bow", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To hunt the wolf in the woods to-day.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Leave the hearth and leave the house ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To the cricket and the mouse;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Find grandma out a sunny seat ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "With babe and lambkin at her feet ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Not a soul at home may stay", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "For the shepherds must go ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "With lance and bow", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To hunt the wolf in the woods to-day.", "") ?>
PoemAttribution("85", SmallCapsText("—Samuel Taylor Coleridge. ")) ?>
PoemEnd() ?>
StoryTitle("caps", "The Old, Old Song") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PagePoem(26, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "When all the world is young, lad, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And all the trees are green;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And every goose a swan, lad, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And every lass a queen;— ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Then hey for boot and horse, lad, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And round the world away; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Young blood must have its course, lad, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And every dog his day.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "When all the world is old, lad, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And all the trees are brown; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And all the sport is stale, lad,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And all the wheels run down;— ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Creep home, and take your place there, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "The spent and maimed among: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "God grant you find one face there, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "You loved when all was young. ", "") ?>
PoemAttribution("85", SmallCapsText("—Charles Kingsley. ")) ?>
PoemEnd() ?>
StoryTitle("caps", "The Eagle ") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "He clasps the crag with hookèd hands;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Close to the sun in lonely lands,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Ring'd with the azure world, he stands.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "He watches from his mountain walls, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And like a thunderbolt he falls.", "") ?>
PoemAttribution("85", SmallCapsText("—Alfred Tennyson.")) ?>
PoemEnd() ?>
StoryTitle("caps", "The Sands of Dee") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PagePoem(27, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"O Mary, go and call the cattle home,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "And call the cattle home,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "And call the cattle home,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Across the sands of Dee!\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The western wind was wild and dank with foam", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And all alone went she.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The western tide crept up along the sand,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "And o'er and o'er the sand,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "And round and round the sand,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "As far as eye could see.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The rolling mist came down and hid the land;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And never home came she.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Oh! is it weed, or fish, or floating hair,—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "A tress of golden hair,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "A drownèd maiden's hair,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Above the nets at sea?", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Was never salmon yet that shone so fair", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Among the stakes on Dee.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "They rowed her in across the rolling foam, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "The cruel crawling foam,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "The cruel hungry foam, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "To her grave beside the sea. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But still the boatmen hear her call the cattle home ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Across the sands of Dee.", "") ?>
PoemAttribution("85", SmallCapsText("—Charles Kingsley.")) ?>
PoemEnd() ?>
StoryTitle("caps", "The Tiger") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PagePoem(28, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Tiger! tiger! burning bright, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "In the forests of the night, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "What immortal hand or eye ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Could frame thy fearful symmetry?", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "In what distant deeps or skies ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Burnt the fire of thine eyes? ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "On what wings dare he aspire? ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "What the hand dare seize the fire?", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And what shoulder, and what art ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Could twist the sinews of thy heart? ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And when thy heart began to beat, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "What dread hand and what dread feet?", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "What the hammer? what the chain? ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "In what furnace was thy brain? ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "What the anvil? what dread grasp ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Dare its deadly terrors clasp?", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "When the stars threw down their spears, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And watered heaven with their tears, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Did He smile His work to see?", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Did He who made the lamb, make thee?", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Tiger! tiger! burning bright, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "In the forests of the night, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "What immortal hand or eye", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Dare frame thy fearful symmetry?", "") ?>
PoemAttribution("85", SmallCapsText("—William Blake.")) ?>
PoemEnd() ?>
StoryTitle("caps", "Ghost Fairies") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PagePoem(29, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "When the open fire is lit, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "In the evening after tea, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Then I like to come and sit ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Where the fire can talk to me.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Fairy stories it can tell,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Tales of a forgotten race,—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Of the fairy ghosts that dwell ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "In the ancient chimney place.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "They are quite the strangest folk ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Anybody ever knew,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Shapes of shadow and of smoke ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Living in the chimney flue.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"Once,\" the fire said, \"long ago, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "With the wind they used to rove, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Gypsy fairies, to and fro,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Camping in the field and grove.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"Hither with the trees they came ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Hidden in the logs; and here, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Hovering above the flame,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Often some of them appear.\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "So I watch, and, sure enough,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "I can see the fairies! Then, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Suddenly there comes a puff—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Whish!—and they are gone again!", "") ?>
PoemAttribution("85", SmallCapsText("—Frank Dempster Sherman. ")) ?>
PoemEnd() ?>
StoryTitle("caps", "Kentucky Babe") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PagePoem(30, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "'Skeeters am a hummin' on de honeysuckle vine,—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Sleep, Kentucky Babe!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Sandman am a comin' to dis little coon of mine,—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Sleep, Kentucky Babe!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Silv'ry moon am shinin' in de heabens up above, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Bobolink am pinin' fo' his little lady love:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Yo' is mighty lucky, Babe of ol' Kentucky,—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Close yo' eyes in sleep.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Fly away, Kentucky Babe, fly away to rest,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Lay yo' kinky woolly head on yo' mammy's breast,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Um,—Um,—um,—um,—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Close yo' eyes in sleep.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Daddy's in de cane brake wid his little dog and gun,—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Sleep, Kentucky Babe!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "'Possum fo' yo' breakfast when yo' sleepin' time is done,—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Sleep, Kentucky Babe!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Bogie man 'll catch yo' sure unless yo' close yo' eyes, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Waitin' jes' outside de doo' to take yo' by surprise, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Bes' be keepin' shady, Little colored lady,—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Close yo' eyes in sleep.", "") ?>
PoemAttribution("85", SmallCapsText("—Richard Henry Buck.")) ?>
PoemEnd() ?>
StoryTitle("caps", "Fairy Dawn") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PagePoem(31, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "'Tis the hour of fairy ban and spell:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The wood-tick has kept the minutes well;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "He has counted them all with click and stroke, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Deep in the heart of the mountain oak,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And he has awakened the sentry elve", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Who sleeps with him in the haunted tree, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To bid him ring the hour of twelve,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And call the fays to their revelry; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Twelve small strokes on his tinkling bell—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "('T was made of the white snail's pearly shell)—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2DQ", "", "\"Midnight comes, and all is well! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Hither, hither, wing your way!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "'Tis the dawn of the fairy-day.\"", "") ?>
PoemAttribution("85", SmallCapsText("—Joseph Rodman Drake.")) ?>
PoemEnd() ?>
StoryTitle("caps", "Song of the Elf") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "When the poppies with their shield, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Sentinel", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Forest and the harvest fields, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "In the hill", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Of a blossom, fair to see ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "There I stall the humble bee, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "My good stud; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "There I stable him and hold, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Harness him with fairy gold,", "") ?>
PagePoem(32, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "There I ease his burly back ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Of the honey and its sack ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Gathered from each bud.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Where the glowworm lights its lamp ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "There I lie;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Where, above the grasses damp, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Moths go by;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Now within the fussy brook, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Where the waters wind and crook ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Round the rocks,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I go sailing down the gloom ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Straddling on a wisp of broom, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Or, beneath the owlet moon, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Trip it to the cricket's tune ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Tossing back my locks.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Ere the crowfoot on the lawn lifts its head, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Or the glowworm's light be gone", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Dim and dead, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "In a cobweb hammock deep ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Twixt two ferns I swing and sleep ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Hid away;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Where the drowsy musk-rose blows ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And a dreamy runnel flows", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "In the land of Faery,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Where no mortal thing can see ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "All the elfin day.", "") ?>
PoemAttribution("85", SmallCapsText("—Madison Cawein.")) ?>
PoemEnd() ?>
StoryTitle("caps", "Song for Music") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PagePoem(33, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "A lake and a fairy boat", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "To sail in the moonlight clear,—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And merrily we would float", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "From the dragons that watch us here!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Thy gown should be snow-white silk, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And strings of orient pearls,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Like gossamers dipp'd in milk, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Should twine with thy raven curls!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Red rubies should deck thy hands, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And diamonds should be thy dow'r—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But fairies have broke their wands, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And wishing has lost its pow'r!", "") ?>
PoemAttribution("85", SmallCapsText("—Thomas Hood.")) ?>
PoemEnd() ?>
StoryTitle("caps", "The Fairy Queen") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PagePoem(34, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Come follow, follow me,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "You fairy elves that be;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Which circle on the green,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Come follow Mab your queen.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Hand in hand let's dance around,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "For this place is fairy ground.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "When mortals are at rest, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And snoring in their nest, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Unheard and unespied ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Through keyholes we do glide; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Over tables, stools and shelves, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "We trip it with our fairy elves.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And if the house be foul ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "With platter, dish or bowl, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Upstairs we nimbly creep, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And find the sluts asleep;", "") ?>
PagePoem(35, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "There we pinch their arms and thighs;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "None escapes, nor none espies.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But if the house be swept, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And from uncleanness kept, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "We praise the household maid, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And duly she is paid;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "For we use before we go", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To drop a tester in her shoe.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Upon a mushroom's head ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Our tablecloth is spread; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "A grain of rye or wheat", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Is manchet, which we eat; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Pearly drops of dew we drink ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "In acorn cups filled to the brink.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The grasshopper, gnat and fly, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Serve for our minstrelsy; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Grace said, we dance awhile ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And so the time beguile;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And if the moon doth hide her head, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The glowworm lights us home to bed.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "On tops of dewy grass ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "So nimbly do we pass, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The young and tender stalk ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Ne'er bends when we do walk; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Yet in the morning may be seen ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Where we the night before have been.", "") ?>
PoemAttribution("85", ConcatText("From ", SmallCapsText("Percy's \"Reliques.\""))) ?>
PoemEnd() ?>
StoryTitle("caps", "Lullaby for Titania") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PagePoem(36, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "You spotted snakes with double tongue, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Thorny hedgehogs, be not seen; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Newts and blind-worms, do not wrong; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Come not near our fairy queen.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Philomel, with melody, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Sing in our sweet lullaby; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Lulla, lulla, lullaby; lulla, lulla, lullaby! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Never harm,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Nor spell nor charm,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Come our lovely lady nigh; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "So, good-night, with lullaby.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Weaving spiders, come not here;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Hence, you long-legg'd spinners, hence! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Beetles black, approach not near; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Worm, nor snail, do no offence.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Philomel, with melody, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Sing in our sweet lullaby; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Lulla, lulla, lullaby; lulla, lulla, lullaby! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Never harm,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Nor spell nor charm,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Come our lovely lady nigh; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "So, good-night, with lullaby.", "") ?>
PoemAttribution("85", SmallCapsText("—William Shakespeare.")) ?>
PoemEnd() ?>
StoryTitle("caps", "Over Hill, Over Dale") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PagePoem(37, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Over hill, over dale, through bush, through brier, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Over park, over pale, through flood, through fire,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I do wander everiewhere, swifter than the moonè's sphere;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And I serve the Fairy Queen to dew her orbs upon the green.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The cowslips tall her pensioners be, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "In their gold coats spots you see, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Those be rubies, fairy favors,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "In those freckles live their savors:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I must go seek some dewdrops here, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And hang a pearl in every cowslip's ear.", "") ?>
PoemAttribution("85", SmallCapsText("—William Shakespeare.")) ?>
PoemEnd() ?>
StoryTitle("caps", "Dirge on the Death of Oberon, the Fairy King") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Toll the lilies' silver bells! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Oberon, the King, is dead! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "In her grief the crimson rose ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "All her velvet leaves has shed.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Toll the lilies' silver bells! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Oberon is dead and gone ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "He who looked an emperor ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "When his glow-worm crown was on.", "") ?>
PagePoem(38, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Toll the lilies' silver bells!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Slay the dragonfly, his steed; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Dig his grave within the ring", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Of the mushrooms in the mead.", "") ?>
PoemAttribution("85", SmallCapsText("—G. W. Thornbury.")) ?>
PoemEnd() ?>
StoryTitle("caps", "Verse") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I find earth not gray, but rosy,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Heaven not grim, but fair of hue. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Do I stoop, I pick a posy, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Do I stand and stare—all 's blue.", "") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>
StoryTitle("caps", "On the Grasshopper and the Cricket") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The poetry of earth is never dead; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "When all the birds are faint with the hot sun,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And hide in cooling trees, a voice will run ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "From hedge to hedge about the new-mown mead; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "That is the Grasshopper's—he takes the lead ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "In summer luxury,—he has never done ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "With his delights; for when tired out with fun, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "He rests at ease beneath some pleasant weed. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The poetry of earth is ceasing never ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "On a lone winter evening, when the frost ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Has wrought a silence, from the stove there shrills ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The Cricket's song, in warmth increasing ever, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And seems to one, in drowsiness half lost, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "The Grasshopper's among some grassy hills. ", "") ?>
PoemAttribution("85", SmallCapsText("—John Keats.")) ?>
PoemEnd() ?>
StoryTitle("caps", "To Daffodils") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PagePoem(39, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Fair daffodils, we weep to see", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "You haste away so soon:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "As yet the early-rising sun", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Has not attained his noon.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Stay, stay,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", " Until the hasting day", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Has run", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But to the even-song:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", " And, having pray'd together, we", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Will go with you along.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "We have short time to stay as you,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "We have as short a spring;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "As quick a growth to meet decay,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "As you, or anything.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "We die,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "As your hours do, and dry", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Away", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Like to the summer's rain,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Or as the pearls of morning's dew", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Ne'r to be found again.", "") ?>
PoemAttribution("85", SmallCapsText("—Robert Herrick.")) ?>
PoemEnd() ?>
StoryTitle("caps", "Daisies") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PagePoem(40, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Over the shoulders and slopes of the dune", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "I saw the white daisies go down to the sea, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "A host in the sunshine, an army in June", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "The people God sends us to set our heart free.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The bob-o'-links rallied them up from the dell, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "The orioles whistled them out of the wood; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And all of their singing was, \"Earth, it is well!\" ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And all of their dancing was, \"Life, thou art good!\"", "") ?>
PoemAttribution("85", SmallCapsText("—Bliss Carman.")) ?>
PoemEnd() ?>
StoryTitle("caps", "The Cloud") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I bring fresh showers for the thirsting flowers, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "From the seas and the streams;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I bear light shades for the leaves when laid ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "In their noonday dreams.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "From my wings are shaken the dews that waken ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "The sweet buds every one,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "When rocked to rest on their mother's breast, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And she dances about the sun —", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I wield the flail of the lashing hail, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And whiten the green plains under, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And then again I dissolve it in rain, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And laugh as I pass in thunder.", "") ?>
PoemAttribution("85", SmallCapsText("—Percy Bysshe Shelley.")) ?>
PoemEnd() ?>
StoryTitle("caps", "Auld Daddy Darkness") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PagePoem(41, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Auld Daddy Darkness creeps frae his hole, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Black as a blackamoor, blin' as a mole: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Stir the fire till it lowes, let the bairnie sit, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Auld Daddy Darkness is no wantit yit.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "See him in the corners hidin' frae the licht, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "See him at the window gloomin' at the nicht; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Turn up the gas licht, close the shutters a', ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "An' Auld Daddy Darkness will flee far awa'.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Awa' to hide the birdie within its cosy nest,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Awa' to lap the wee flooers on their mither's breast, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Awa' to loosen Gaffer Toil frae his daily ca',", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "For Auld Daddy Darkness is kindly to a'.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "He comes when we're weary to wean's frae oor waes, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "He comes when the bairnies are gettin' aff their claes; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To cover them sae cosy, an' bring bonnie dreams,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "So Auld Daddy Darkness is better than he seems.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Steek yer een, my wee tot, ye'll see Daddy then; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "He's in below the bed claes, to cuddle ye he's fain; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Noo nestle in his bosie, sleep and dream yer fill,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Till Wee Davie Daylicht comes keekin' owre the hill.", "") ?>
PoemAttribution("85", SmallCapsText("—James Ferguson.")) ?>
PoemEnd() ?>
StoryTitle("caps", "Wee Davie Daylight") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PagePoem(42, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Wee Davie Daylicht ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Keeks ower the sea ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Early in the morning ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Wi' a clear e'e; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Waukens a' the birdies ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "That were sleepin' soun'—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Wee Davie Daylicht", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Is nae lazy loon.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Wee Davie Daylicht ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Glowers ower the hill, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Glints through the greenwood, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Dances on the rill;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Smiles on the wee cot, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Shines on the ha'—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Wee Davie Daylicht ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Cheers the hearts o' a'.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Come, bonnie bairnie, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Come awa' to me; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Cuddle in my bosie, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Sleep upon my knee;—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Wee Davie Daylicht ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Noo has clos'd his e'e ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "In among the rosy clouds ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Far ayont the sea.", "") ?>
PoemAttribution("85", SmallCapsText("—Robert Tennant.")) ?>
PoemEnd() ?>
StoryTitle("caps", "The Sea") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PagePoem(43, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The sea! the sea! the open sea! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The blue, the fresh, the ever free! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Without a mark, without a bound, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "It runneth the earth's wide regions round; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "It plays with the clouds; it mocks the skies; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Or like a cradled creature lies.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I'm on the sea! I'm on the sea! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I am where I would ever be;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "With the blue above, and the blue below, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And silence wheresoe'er I go;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "If a storm should come and awake the deep, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "What matter? I shall ride and sleep.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I love, oh, how I love to ride", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "On the fierce, foaming, bursting tide, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "When every mad wave drowns the moon, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Or whistles aloft his tempest tune,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And tells how goeth the world below, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And why the sou'west blasts do blow.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I never was on the dull, tame shore,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But I loved the great sea more and more, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And backwards flew to her billowy breast, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Like a bird that seeketh its mother's nest; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And a mother she was, and is, to me;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "For I was born on the open sea!", "") ?>
PoemAttribution("85", SmallCapsText("—Barry Cornwall.")) ?>
PoemEnd() ?>
StoryTitle("caps", "Old Winter") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PagePoem(44, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Old Winter sad, in snow yclad, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Is making a doleful din;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But let him howl till he crack his jowl, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "We will not let him in.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Ay, let him lift from the billowy drift ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "His hoary, haggard form,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And scowling stand, with his wrinkled hand ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Outstretching to the storm.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And let his weird and sleety beard ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Stream loose upon the blast,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And, rustling, chime to the tinkling rime ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "From his bald head falling fast.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Let his baleful breath shed blight and death ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "On herb and flower and tree;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And brooks and ponds in crystal bonds ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Bind fast, but what care we?", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Let him push at the door,—in the chimney roar, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And rattle the windowpane;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Let him in at us spy with his icicle eye, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "But he shall not entrance gain.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Let him gnaw, forsooth, with his freezing tooth, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "On our roof tiles, till he tire;", "") ?>
PagePoem(45, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But we care not a whit, as we jovial sit ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Before the blazing fire.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Come, lads, let's sing, till the rafters ring; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Come, push the can about;—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "From our snug fireside this Christmas-tide ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "We'll keep old Winter out.", "") ?>
PoemAttribution("85", SmallCapsText("—Thomas Noel.")) ?>
PoemEnd() ?>
StoryTitle("caps", "The First Snow Fall") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The snow had begun in the gloaming,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And busily all the night", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Had been heaping field and highway ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "With a silence deep and white.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Every pine and fir and hemlock ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Wore ermine too dear for an earl, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And the poorest twig on the elm tree ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Was ridged inch deep with pearl.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "From sheds new-roofed with Carrara", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Came Chanticleer's muffled crow, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The stiff rails softened to swan's-down ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And still fluttered down the snow.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I stood and watched by the window ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "The noiseless work of the sky", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And the sudden flurry of snow birds, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Like brown leaves whirling by.", "") ?>
PagePoem(46, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I thought of a mound in sweet Auburn ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Where a little headstone stood; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "How the flakes were folding it gently, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "As did robins the babes in the wood.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Up spoke our own little Mabel", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Saying, \"Father, who makes the snow?\" ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And I told of the good All-father ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Who cares for us here below.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Again I looked at the snowfall, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And thought of the leaden sky ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "That arched o'er our first great sorrow, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "When that mound was heaped so high.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I remembered the gradual patience ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "That fell from that cloud like snow, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Flake by flake, healing and hiding ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "The scar that renewed our woe.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And again to the child I whispered, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2DQ", "", "\"The snow that husheth all, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Darling, the merciful Father ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Alone can make it fall!\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Then, with eyes that saw not, I kissed her, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And she, kissing back, could not know ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "That my kiss was given to her sister, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Folded close under deepening snow.", "") ?>
PoemAttribution("85", SmallCapsText("—James Russell Lowell.")) ?>
PoemEnd() ?>
StoryTitle("caps", "The Unbroken Song") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PagePoem(47, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I heard the bells on Christmas Day ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Their old, familiar carols play, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And wild and sweet", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "The words repeat", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Of peace on earth, good will to men!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And thought how, as the day had come, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The belfries of all Christendom", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Had rolled along ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "The unbroken song ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Of peace on earth, good will to men!", "") ?>
PoemAttribution("85", SmallCapsText("—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.")) ?>
PoemEnd() ?>
StoryTitle("caps", "De Sheepfol'") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "De massa ob de sheepfol',", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Dat guards de' sheepfol' bin,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Look out in de gloomerin' meadows,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Wha'r de long night rain begin—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "So he call to de hirelin' shepa'd,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"Is my sheep, is dey all come in?—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "My sheep, is dey all come in?\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Oh, den says de hirelin' shepa'd:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"Dey 's some, dey 's black and thin, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And some, dey 's po' ol' wedda's, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Dat can't come home agin.", "") ?>
PagePoem(48, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Dey 's some black sheep an' ol' wedda's, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But de res', dey 's all brung in,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "De res', dey 's all brung in.\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Den de massa ob de sheepfnl', ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Dat guards de sheepfol' bin, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Goes down in de gloomerin' meadows, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Wha'r de long night rain begin—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "So he le' down de ba's ob de sheepfol',", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Callin' sof' \"Come in. Come in.\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Callin' sof \"Come in. Come in.\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Den up t'ro' de gloomerin' meadows,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "T'ro' de col' night rain and win',", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And up t'ro' de gloomerin' rain paf',", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Wha'r de sleet fa' pie'cin' thin,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "De po' los' sheep ob de sheepfol',", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Dey all comes gadderin' in.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "De po' los' sheep ob de sheepfol',", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Dey all comes gadderin' in.", "") ?>
PoemAttribution("85", SmallCapsText("—Sarah Platt Greene.")) ?>
PoemEnd() ?>
StoryTitle("caps", "March") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PagePoem(49, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I wonder what spendthrift chose to spill", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Such bright gold under my window-sill!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Is it fairy gold? Does it glitter still? ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Bless me! it is but a daffodil!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And look at the crocus keeping tryst ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "With the daffodil by the sunshine kissed. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Like beautiful bubbles of amethyst", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "They seem, blown out of the earth's snow-mist.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And snowdrops' delicate fairy bells", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "With a pale green tint like the ocean swells;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And the hyacinths wearing their perfumed spells! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The ground is a rainbow of asphodels!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Who said that March was a scold and a shrew? ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Who said she had nothing on earth to do", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But tempest of fairies and rags to brew?", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Why, look at the wealth she has lavished on you!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "O March that blusters and March that blows,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "What color under your footsteps glows!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Beauty you summon from winter snows,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And you are the pathway that leads to the rose.", "") ?>
PoemAttribution("85", SmallCapsText("—Celia Thaxter.")) ?>
PoemEnd() ?>
StoryTitle("caps", "Home Thoughts from Abroad") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PagePoem(50, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "O, to be in England", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Now that April's there, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And whoever wakes in England ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Sees, some morning, unaware, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "That the lowest boughs and the brushwood sheaf ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Round the elm-tree bole are in tiny leaf,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "While the chaffinch sings on the orchard bough ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "In England—now!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And after April, when May follows,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And the white-throat builds, and all the swallows! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Hark, where my blossom'd pear-tree in the hedge ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Leans to the field and scatters on the clover ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Blossoms and dewdrops—at the bent spray's edge—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "That's the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Lest you should think he never could recapture", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The first fine careless rapture!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And though the fields look rough with hoary dew, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "All will be gay when noontide wakes anew", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The buttercups, the little children's dower", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "—Far brighter than this gaudy melon-flower!", "") ?>
PoemAttribution("85", SmallCapsText("—Robert Browning.")) ?>
PoemEnd() ?>
StoryTitle("caps", "Verse") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Such a starved bank of moss ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Till, that May morn, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Blue ran the flash across—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Violets were born.", "") ?>
PoemAttribution("85", SmallCapsText("—Robert Browning.")) ?>
PoemEnd() ?>
StoryTitle("caps", "Hunting Song") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PagePoem(51, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Waken, lords and ladies gay,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "On the mountain dawns the day, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "All the jolly chase is here,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "With hawk, and horse, and hunting spear!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Hounds are in their couples yelling, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Hawks are whistling, horns are knelling, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Merrily, merrily, mingle they,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2DQ", "", "\"Waken, lords and ladies gay.\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Waken, lords and ladies gay,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The mist has left the mountain gray, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Springlets in the dawn are steaming, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Diamonds on the brake are gleaming; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And foresters have busy been,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To track the buck in thicket green; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Now we come to chant our lay, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2DQ", "", "\"Waken, lords and ladies gay.\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Waken, lords and ladies gay, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To the greensward haste away; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "We can show you where he lies, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Fleet of foot and tall of size;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "We can show the marks he made, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "When 'gainst the oak his antlers fray'd;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "You shall see him brought to bay, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2DQ", "", "\"Waken, lords and ladies gay.\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Louder, louder chant the lay, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Waken, lords and ladies gay! ", "") ?>
PagePoem(52, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Tell them youth, and mirth, and glee ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Run a course as well as we;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Time, stern huntsman! who can balk, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Stanch as hound, and fleet as hawk? ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Think of this, and rise with day, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Gentle lords and ladies gay.", "") ?>
PoemAttribution("85", SmallCapsText("—Sir Walter Scott.")) ?>
PoemEnd() ?>
StoryTitle("caps", "The Bugle Song") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The splendor falls on castle walls", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And snowy summits old in story; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The long light shakes across the lakes ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And the wild cataract leaps in glory.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Blow, bugle, blow, set the wild echoes flying, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Blow, bugle; answer, echoes, dying, dying, dying.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "O hark, O hear! how thin and clear, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And thinner, clearer, farther going! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "O sweet and far from cliff and scar ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The horns of Elfland faintly blowing ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Blow, let us hear the purple glens replying: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Blow, bugle; answer, echoes, dying, dying, dying.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "O love, they die in yon rich sky, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "They faint on hill or field or river; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Our echoes roll from soul to soul, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And grow forever and forever.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Blow, bugle, blow, set the wild echoes flying, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And answer, echoes, answer, dying, dying, dying.", "") ?>
PoemAttribution("85", SmallCapsText("—Alfred Tennyson.")) ?>
PoemEnd() ?>
StoryTitle("caps", "The Hag") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PagePoem(53, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "The Hag is astride, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "This night for a ride, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Her wild steed and she together; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Through thick and through thin, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Now out, and then in,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Though ne'er so foul be the weather.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "A thorn or a burr", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "She takes for a spur; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "With a last of a bramble she rides now, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Through brakes and through briars, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "O'er ditches and mires,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "She follows the spirit that guides now.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "No beast for his food ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Dares now range the wood, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But hushed in his lair he lies lurking; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "While mischief by these,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "On land and on seas,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "At noon or night are found working.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "The storm will arise ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And trouble the skies ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "This night; and, more for wonder, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "The ghost from the tomb ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Affrighted shall come,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Called out by the clap of the thunder. ", "") ?>
PoemAttribution("85", SmallCapsText("—Robert Herrick.")) ?>
PoemEnd() ?>
StoryTitle("caps", "The Dustman") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PagePoem(54, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"Dustman, dustman!\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Through the deserted square he cries, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And babies put their rosy fists", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Into their eyes.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "There's nothing out of No-man's-land ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "So drowsy since the world began,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "As, \"Dustman, dustman, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Dustman.\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "He goes his village round at dusk ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "From door to door, from day to day; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And when the children hear his step ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "They stop their play.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"Dustman, dustman!\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Far up the street he is descried, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And soberly the twilight games ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Are laid aside.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"Dustman, dustman!\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "There, Drowsyhead, the old refrain, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"Dustman, dustman!\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "It goes again.", "") ?>
PagePoem(55, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"Dustman, dustman! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"Hurry by and let me sleep. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "When most I wish for you to come, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "You always creep.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"Dustman, dustman!\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And when I want to play some more, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "You never then are farther off", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Than the next door.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"Dustman, dustman!\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "He beckles down the echoing curb, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "A step that neither hopes nor hates ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Ever disturb.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"Dustman, dustman!\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "He never varies from one pace, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And the monotony of time", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Is in his face.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And some day, with more potent dust, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Brought from his home beyond the deep, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And gently scattered on our eyes,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "We, too, shall sleep,—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Hearing the call we know so well ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Fade swiftly out as it began, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"Dustman, dustman,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Dustman!\"", "") ?>
PoemAttribution("85", SmallCapsText("—Bliss Carman.")) ?>
PoemEnd() ?>
StoryTitle("caps", "Cuddle Doon ") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PagePoem(56, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The bairnies cuddle doon at nicht ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Wi' muckle faucht an' din;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "O, try an' sleep, ye waukrife rogues, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Your father's comin' in.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "They never heed a word I speak; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "I try to gi'e a froon,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But aye I hap them up, an' cry, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2DQ", "", "\"O, bairnies, cuddle doon.\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Wee Jamie wi' the curly heid—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "He aye sleeps neist the wa', ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Bangs up an' cries, \"I want a piece\"; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "The rascal starts them a'.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I rin an' fetch them pieces, drinks, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "They stop awee the soun';", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Then draw the blankets up, an' cry, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2DQ", "", "\"Noo, weanies, cuddle doon.\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But ere five minutes gang, wee Rab ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Cries oot frae 'neath the claes,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"Mither, mak' Tam gie ower at ance—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "He's kittlin' wi' his taes.\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The mischief's in that Tam for tricks, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "He'd bother half the toon;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But aye I hap them up, an' cry, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2DQ", "", "\"O, bairnies, cuddle doon.\" ", "") ?>
PagePoem(57, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "At length they hear their father's fit, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And as he steeks the door, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "They turn their faces to the wa', ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "While Tam pretends to snore.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"Hae a' the weans been gud?\" he asks, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "As he pits aff his shoon;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"The bairnies, John, are in their beds, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "An' long since cuddled doon.\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "An' just afore we bed oorsel's, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "We look at oor wee lambs; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Tam has his airm roun' wee Rab's neck, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "An' Rab his airm roun' Tam's.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I lift wee Jamie up the bed,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "An', as I straik each croon, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I whisper, till my heart fills up, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2DQ", "", "\"O, bairnies, cuddle doon.\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The bairnies cuddle doon at nicht, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Wi' mirth that's dear to me;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But sune the big warl's cark an' care ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Will quaten doon their glee.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Yet, come what will to ilka ane, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "May He who sits aboon", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Aye whisper, though their pows be bauld, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2DQ", "", "\"O, bairnies, cuddle doon.\"", "") ?>
PoemAttribution("85", SmallCapsText("—Alexander Anderson.")) ?>
PoemEnd() ?>
StoryTitle("caps", "Requiem") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PagePoem(58, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Under the wide and starry sky, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Dig the grave and let me lie. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Glad did I live, and gladly die, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And I laid me down with a will.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "This be the verse you grave for me: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Here he lies where he longed to be, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Home is the sailor, home from the sea, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And the hunter home from the hill.", "") ?>
PoemAttribution("85", SmallCapsText("—Robert Louis Stevenson.")) ?>
PoemEnd() ?>
StoryTitle("caps", "Psalm XXIV") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Lift up your heads, O ye gates;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And be ye lift up, ye everlasting doors; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And the King of glory shall come in.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Who is this King of glory?", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The Lord strong and mighty, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The Lord mighty in battle.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Lift up your heads, O ye gates;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Even lift them up, ye everlasting doors; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And the King of glory shall come in.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Who is this King of glory?", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The Lord of hosts, He is the King of glory.", "") ?>
PoemAttribution("85", "—Bible.") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>
StoryTitle("caps", "The Chambered Nautilus") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PagePoem(59, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "This is the ship of pearl which, poets feign, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Sails the unshadowed main,—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "The venturous bark that flings", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "On the sweet summer wind its purpled wings ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "In gulfs enchanted, where the Siren sings, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And coral reefs lie bare,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Where the cold sea-maids rise to sun their streaming hair.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Its webs of living gauze no more unfurl; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Wrecked is the ship of pearl!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And every chambered cell,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Where its dim dreaming life was wont to dwell, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "As the frail tenant shaped his growing shell, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Before thee lies revealed,—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Its irised ceiling rent, its sunless crypt unsealed!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Year after year beheld the silent toil ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "That spread his lustrous coil; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Still, as the spiral grew,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "He left the past year's dwelling for the new, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Stole with soft step its shining archway through, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Built up its idle door,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Stretched in his last-found home, and knew the old no more.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Thanks for the heavenly message brought by thee, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Child of the wandering sea,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Cast from her lap, forlorn!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "From thy dead lips a clearer note is born ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Than ever Triton blew from wreathèd horn! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "While on mine ear it rings,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Through the deep caves of thought I hear a voice that sings:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "As the swift seasons roll!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Leave thy low-vaulted past!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Let each new temple, nobler than the last, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Shut thee from heaven with a dome more vast, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Till thou at length art free,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Leaving thine outgrown shell by life's unresting sea!", "") ?>
PoemAttribution("85", SmallCapsText("—Oliver Wendell Holmes.")) ?>
PoemEnd() ?>
StoryTitle("caps", "To an Autumn Leaf") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Wee shallop of shimmering gold!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Slip down from your ways in the branches. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Some fairy will loosen your hold—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Wee shallop of shimmering gold. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Spill dew on your bows and unfold ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Silk sails for the fairest of launches! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Wee shallop of shimmering gold,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Slip down from your ways in the branches.", "") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>
StoryTitle("caps", "The Captain Stood on the Carronade") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PagePoem(61, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The Captain stood on the carronade—\"First lieutenant,\" says he,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"Send all my merry men aft here, for they must list to me,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I haven't the gift of the gab, my sons—because I'm bred to the sea;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "That ship there is a Frenchman, who means to fight with me.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Odds blood, hammer and tongs, long as I've been to sea, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I've fought 'gainst every odds—but I've gained the victory.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "That ship there is a Frenchman, and if we don't take she,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "'T is a thousand bullets to one, that she will capture we; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I haven't the gift of the gab, my boys, so each man to his gun;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "If she's not mine in half an hour, I'll flog each mother's son.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Odds bobs, hammer and tongs, long as I 've been to sea, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I've fought 'gainst every odds, and I've gained the victory.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "We fought for twenty minutes when the Frenchmen had enough.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"I little thought,\" said he, \"that your men were of such stuff.\"", "") ?>
PagePoem(62, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The Captain took the Frenchman's sword, a low bow made to he;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I haven't the gift of the gab, Monsieur, but polite I wish to be.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Odds bobs, hammer and tongs, long as I've been to sea,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I've fought 'gainst every odds, and I've gained the victory.\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Our Captain sent for all of us, \"My merry men,\" said he,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"I haven't the gift of the gab, my lads, but yet I thankful be;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "You've done your duty handsomely, each man stood to his gun;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "If you hadn't, you villains, as sure as day, I'd have flogged each mother's son.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Odds bobs, hammer and tongs, as long as I'm at sea ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I'll fight 'gainst every odds—and I'll gain the victory.\"", "") ?>
PoemAttribution("85", SmallCapsText("—Frederick Marryat.")) ?>
PoemEnd() ?>
StoryTitle("caps", "The Whale") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "It was in the year of ninety-four, in March the twentieth day,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Our gallant tars their anchors weighed, and for sea they bore away,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L5", "", "Brave boys,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And for sea they bore away. ", "") ?>
PagePoem(63, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Speedicut was our captain's name, our ship was the Lyon bold,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And we had gone to sea, brave boys, to face the storm and cold.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "When that we came to the cold country ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Where the frost and the snow did lie, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Where the frost and the snow, and the whale-fish so ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "blue and the daylight's never gone,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L5", "", "Brave boys,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And the daylight's never gone.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Our boatswain went to topmost high, with his spy-glass in his hand,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"A whale, a whale, a whale,\" he did cry, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2DQ", "", "\"And she blows at every span.\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Our captain stood on the quarter deck, and a clever ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "little man was he,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Overhaul, overhaul, let the wind-tackle fall, and ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "to launch your boats so free,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L5", "", "Brave boys,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And to launch your boats so free.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "There's harpooneers, and line coilers, and line colecks also;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "There's boat-steerers and sailors brave;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To the whale, to where she blows, to the whale, to where she blows,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L5", "", "Brave boys,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "To the whale, to where she blows.", "") ?>
PagePoem(64, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "We struck the whale, and away she went, casts a flourish", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "with her tail,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But Oh, and alas, we've lost one man, and we did not kill the whale,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L5", "", "Brave boys,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And we did not kill that whale.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "When that the news to our captain it did come, a sorrowful ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "man was he,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "For the losing of his prentice boy, and down his colours drew he,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L5", "", "Brave boys,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And down his colours drew he.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Now, my lads, don't be amazed for the losing of one man,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "For fortune it will take its place, let a man do all he can,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L5", "", "Brave boys,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Let a man do all he can. ", "") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>
StoryTitle("caps", "The Cavalier's Escape") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PagePoem(65, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Trample! trample! went the roan, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Trap! trap! went the gray;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But pad! pad! pad! like a thing that was mad, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "My chestnut broke away.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "It was just five miles from Salisbury town,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And but one hour to day.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Thud! thud! came on the heavy roan, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Rap! rap! the mettled gray;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But my chestnut mare was of blood so rare, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "That she showed them all the way. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Spur on! spur on! I doffed my hat, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And wished them all good day.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "They splashed through miry rut and pool,—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Splintered through fence and rail;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But chestnut Kate switched over the gate,—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "I saw them croop and tail.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To Salisbury town—but a mile of down; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Once over this brook and rail. ", "") ?>
PagePoem(66, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Trap! trap! I heard their echoing hoofs ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Past the walls of mossy stone;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The roan flew on at a staggering pace, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "But blood is better than bone.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I patted old Kate, and gave her the spur, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "For I knew it was all my own.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But trample! trample! came their steeds, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And I saw their wolves' eyes burn;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I felt like a royal hart at bay, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And made me ready to turn.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I looked where highest grew the may, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And deepest arched the fern.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I flew at the first knave's sallow throat; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "One blow and he was down.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The second rogue fired twice, and missed; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "I sliced the villain's crown.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Clove through the rest, and flogged brave Kate, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Fast, fast to Salisbury town!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Pad! pad!they came on the level sward, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Thud! thud! upon the sand:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "With a gleam of swords, and a burning match, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And a shaking of flag and hand;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But one long bound, and I passed the gate, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Safe from the canting band.", "") ?>
PoemAttribution("85", SmallCapsText("—Walter Thornbury.")) ?>
PoemEnd() ?>
StoryTitle("caps", "The Salcombe Seaman's Flaunt to the Proud Pirate") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PagePoem(67, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "A lofty ship from Salcombe came,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Blow high, blow low, and so sailed we; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "She had golden trucks, that shone like flame, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "On the bonny coasts of Barbary.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"Masthead, masthead,\" the captains hail, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Blow high, blow low, and so sailed we; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"Look out and round, d'ye see a sail?\" ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "On the bonny coasts of Barbary.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"There's a ship that looms like Beachy Head,\" ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Blow high, blow low, and so sailed we;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"Her banner aloft it blows out red,\" ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "On the bonny coasts of Barbary.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"Oh, ship ahoy, and where do you steer?\" ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Blow high, blow low, and so sailed we; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"Are you man-of-war, or privateer?\" ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "On the bonny coasts of Barbary.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"I am neither one of the two,\" said she, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Blow high, blow low, and so sailed we; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"I'm a pirate, looking for my fee,\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "On the bonny coasts of Barbary.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"I 'm a jolly pirate, out for gold:\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Blow high, blow low, and so sailed we;", "") ?>
PagePoem(68, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"I will rummage through your after hold,\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "On the bonny coasts of Barbary.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The grumbling guns they flashed and roared, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Blow high, blow low, and so sailed we; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Till the pirate's masts went overboard, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "On the bonny coasts of Barbary. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "They fired shots till the pirate's deck, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Blow high, blow low, and so sailed we; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Was blood and spars and broken wreck, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "On the bonny coasts of Barbary. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"O do not haul the red flag down,\" ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Blow high, blow low, and so sailed we; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"O keep all fast until we drown,\" ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "On the bonny coasts of Barbary. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "They called for cans of wine, and drank, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Blow high, blow low, and so sailed we; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "They sang their songs until she sank, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "On the bonny coasts of Barbary. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Now let us brew good cans of flip, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Blow high, blow low, and so sailed we; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And drink a bowl to the Salcombe ship, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "On the bonny coasts of Barbary. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And drink a bowl to the lad of fame, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Blow high, blow low, and so sailed we; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Who put the pirate ship to shame, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "On the bonny coasts of Barbary. ", "") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>
StoryTitle("caps", "Lord Lovel") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PagePoem(69, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Lord Lovel was standing at his stable door,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Combing his milk-white steed;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And out came lady Nancybell,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "To wish her lover good speed.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"Oh, where are you going, Lord Lovel?\" she said,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2DQ", "", "\"I pray you tell to me:\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"Oh, I am going a far journey,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", " Some strange countrie to see.\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"And when will you return, Lord Lovel?\" she said,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2DQ", "", "\"I pray you tell to me.\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"Oh, I'll return in seven long years,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Fair Nancybell for to see.\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "He had not been in merry England", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "A month but barely three,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "When languishing thoughts came into his mind,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And Nancybell fain would he see.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "So he rode and he rode along the highway", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Till he came to yonder town;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "He heard the sound of a chapel bell,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And the ladies were mourning around.", "") ?>
PagePoem(70, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "He asked them who it was that was dead, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And the ladies did him tell:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "They said, \"It is fair Nancybell, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "She died for Lord Lovel.\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The lid of the coffin he opened up, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "The linens he folded down,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And now he kissed the pale, pale lips, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And the tears came trickling down.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"Oh, hast thou died, fair Nancybell, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Oh, hast thou died for me?", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Oh, hast thou died, fair Nancybell? ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Then I will die for thee!\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Lady Nancybell died, as it were, this day, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Lord Lovel, he died to-morrow.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Lady Nancybell died of pure, pure love, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Lord Lovel, he died of sorrow.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Lady Nancy was buried in St. Mary's church, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Lord Lovel in the choir,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And out of her breast there sprang a red rose, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And out of Lord Lovel's sweet-briar.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "They grew and they grew to the top of the church,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And then they could grow no higher,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "They grew till they made a true-lover's knot,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "For all true lovers to admire.", "") ?>
PoemAttribution("85", SmallCapsText("—Old Ballad.")) ?>
PoemEnd() ?>
StoryTitle("caps", "Jane Jones") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PagePoem(71, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Jane Jones keeps talkin' to me all the time, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "An' says \"You must make it a rule", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To study your lessons an' work hard an' learn, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "An' never be absent from school.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Remember the story of Elihu Burritt, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "An' how he clum up to the top,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Got all the knowledge 'at he ever had ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Down in a blacksmithing shop.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Jane Jones she honestly said it was so! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L6", "", "Mebbe he did—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L7", "", "I dunno!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "O' course what 's a keepin' me 'way from the top, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Is not never havin' no blacksmithing shop.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "She said that Ben Franklin was awfully poor,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But full of ambition an' brains;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "An' studied philosophy all his hull life, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "An' see what he got for his pains!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "He brought electricity out of the sky, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "With a kite an' a bottle an' key,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "An' we're owing him more 'n any one else ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "For all the bright lights 'at we see.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Jane Jones she honestly said it was so!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L6", "", "Mebbe he did—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L7", "", "I dunno!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "O' course what's allers been hinderin' me ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Is not havin' any kite, lightning, er key.", "") ?>
PagePoem(72, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Jane Jones said Abe Lincoln had no books at all ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "An' used to split rails when a boy;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "An' General Grant was a tanner by trade ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "An' lived way out in Ill'nois.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "So when the great war in the South first broke out ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "He stood on the side o' the right,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "An' when Lincoln called him to take charge o' things, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "He won nearly every blamed fight.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Jane Jones she honestly said it was so! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L6", "", "Mebbe he did—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L7", "", "I dunno!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Still I ain't to blame, not by a big sight, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "For I ain't never had any battles to fight.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "She said 'at Columbus was out at the knees", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "When he first thought up his big scheme, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "An' told all the Spaniards 'nd Italians, too, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "An' all of 'em said 't was a dream.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But Queen Isabella jest listened to him, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "'Nd pawned all her jewels o' worth,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "'Nd bought him the Santa Maria, 'nd said, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"Go hunt up the rest o' the earth!\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Jane Jones she honestly said it was so! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L6", "", "Mebbe he did—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L7", "", "I dunno!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "O' course that may be, but you must allow ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "They ain't no land to discover jest now!—", "") ?>
PoemAttribution("85", SmallCapsText("—Benjamin Franklin King.")) ?>
PoemEnd() ?>
StoryTitle("caps", "Sir Patrick Spens") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PagePoem(73, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The king sits in Dunfermline town, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Drinking the blude-red wine:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"Oh, whaur will I get a skeely skipper ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "To sail this new ship o' mine?\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Oh, up and spake an eldern knight, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Sat at the king's right knee:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"Sir Patrick Spens is the best sailor ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "That ever sailed the sea.\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Our King has written a braid letter ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And sealed it wi' his hand,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And sent it to Sir Patrick Spens, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Was walking on the strand.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"To Noroway, to Noroway, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "To Noroway o'er the faem; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The king's daughter to Noroway, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "'T is thou maun bring her hame.\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The first word that Sir Patrick read, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Sae loud, loud laughèd he;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The neist word that Sir Patrick read, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "The tear blinded his ee.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"Oh, wha is this has done this deed, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And tauld the king of me,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To send us out at this time o' year ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "To sail upon the sea?", "") ?>
PagePoem(74, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"Be it wind, be it weet, be it hail, be it sleet, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Our ship must sail the faem;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The king's daughter to Noroway, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "'T is we must bring her hame.\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "They hoysed their sails on Monday morn ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Wi' a' the speed they may; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "They hae landed in Noroway ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Upon a Wodensday. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "They hadna been a week, a week, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "In Noroway but twae, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "When that the lords o' Noroway ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Began aloud to say: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"Ye Scottishmen spend a' our king's goud ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And a' our queenis fee.\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"Ye lie, ye lie, ye liars loud, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Fu' loud I hear ye lie!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"For I brought as mickle white monie ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "As will gain my men and me,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And I brought a half-fou o' gude red goud ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Out o'er the sea wi' me.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"Mak' ready, mak' ready, my merry men a'! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Our gude ships sails the morn.\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"Now, ever alake, my master dear, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "I fear a deadly storm.", "") ?>
PagePoem(75, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"I saw the new moon late yestreen ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Wi' the auld moon in her arm; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And, if we gang to sea, master,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "I fear we'll come to harm.\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "They hadna sailed a league, a league,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", " A league but barely three,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", " When the lift grew dark, and the wind blew loud,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And gurly grew the sea.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"Oh, where will I get a gude sailor", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "To tak' my helm in hand,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Till I gae up to the tall topmast", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "To see if I can spy land?\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "They fetched a web o' the silken claith, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Anither o' the twine,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And they wrapped them round that gude ship's side, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "But still the sea cam' in.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Oh, laith, laith were our gude Scots lords ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "To weet their milk-white hands;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But lang ere a' the play was ower ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "They wat their gowden bands.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Oh, laith, laith were our gude Scots lords ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "To weet their cork-heeled shoon;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But lang ere a' the play was played ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "They wat their hats aboon.", "") ?>
PagePoem(76, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Oh, lang, lang may the ladies sit ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Wi' their fans intill their hand, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Before they see Sir Patrick Spens ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Come sailing to the strand!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And lang, lang may the maidens sit ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Wi' their goud kaims in their hair, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "A' waiting for their ain dear loves!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "For them they'll see nae mair.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Half ower, half ower to Aberdour, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "It's fifty fathoms deep,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And there lies gude Sir Patrick Spens ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Wi' the Scots lords at his feet.", "") ?>
PoemAttribution("85", SmallCapsText("—Old Ballad.")) ?>
PoemEnd() ?>
StoryTitle("caps", "How Sleep the Brave") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "How sleep the brave, who sink to rest ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "By all their country's wishes blest! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Returns to deck their hallow'd mould, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "She there shall dress a sweeter sod ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Than Fancy's feet have ever trod.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "By fairy hands their knell is rung, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "By forms unseen their dirge is sung: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "There Honor comes, a pilgrim gray,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To bless the turf that wraps their clay; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And Freedom shall a while repair", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To dwell a weeping hermit there!", "") ?>
PoemAttribution("85", SmallCapsText("—William Collins.")) ?>
PoemEnd() ?>
StoryTitle("caps", "The Burial of Sir John Moore") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PagePoem(77, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "As his corse to the rampart we hurried; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Not a soldier discharged his farewell shot ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "O'er the grave where our hero we buried.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "We buried him darkly at dead of night, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "The sods with our bayonets turning; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "By the struggling moonbeam's misty light, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And the lantern dimly burning.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "No useless coffin inclosed his breast,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Not in sheet nor in shroud we wound him; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "With his martial cloak around him.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Few and short were the prayers we said, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And we spoke not a word of sorrow; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But we steadfastly gazed on the face that was dead, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And we bitterly thought of the morrow.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "We thought, as we hollow'd his narrow bed, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And smoothed down his lonely pillow,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "That the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his head, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And we far away on the billow!", "") ?>
PagePoem(78, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him,— ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But little he'll reck, if they let him sleep on ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "In the grave where a Briton has laid him. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But half of our heavy task was done ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "When the clock struck the hour for retiring, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And we heard the distant and random gun ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "That the foe was sullenly firing. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Slowly and sadly we laid him down, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "From the field of his fame fresh and gory; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "We carved not a line, and we raised not a stone— ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "But we left him alone with his glory! ", "") ?>
PoemAttribution("85", SmallCapsText("—Charles Wolfe. ")) ?>
PoemEnd() ?>
StoryTitle("caps", "The Pied Piper of Hamelin") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PagePoem(79, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Hamelin Town's in Brunswick,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "By famous Hanover city;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The river Weser, deep and wide,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Washes its wall on the southern side;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "A pleasanter spot you never spied;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "But, when begins my ditty,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Almost five hundred years ago,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To see the townsfolk suffer so", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "From vermin, was a pity.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Rats!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "They fought the dogs and killed the cats,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And bit the babies in the cradles,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And ate the cheeses out of the vats,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And licked the soup from the cooks' own ladles,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Split open the kegs of salted sprats,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Made nests inside men's Sunday hats,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And even spoiled the women's chats", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "By drowning their speaking", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "With shrieking and squeaking ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "In fifty different sharps and flats.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "At last the people in a body", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "To the Town Hall came flocking:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\" 'T is clear,\" cried they, \"our Mayor's a noddy;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And as for our Corporation— shocking", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To think we buy gowns lined with ermine", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "For dolts that can't or won't determine", "") ?>
PagePoem(80, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "What's best to rid us of our vermin! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "You hope, because you're old and obese, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To find in the furry civic robe ease?", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Rouse up, sirs! Give your brains a racking ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To find the remedy we're lacking,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Or, sure as fate, we'll send you packing!\" ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "At this the Mayor and Corporation ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Quaked with a mighty consternation.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "An hour they sat in council;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "At length the Mayor broke silence: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"For a guilder I'd my ermine gown sell, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "I wish I were a mile hence!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "It's easy to bid one rack one's brain—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I'm sure my poor head aches again,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I've scratched it so, and all in vain. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Oh for a trap, a trap, a trap!\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Just as he said this what should hap ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "At the chamber door but a gentle tap? ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"Bless us,\" cried the Mayor, \"what 's that?\" ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "(With the Corporation as he sat,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Looking little though wondrous fat; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Nor brighter was his eye, nor moister ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Than a too-long-opened oyster,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Save when at noon his paunch grew mutinous ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "For a plate of turtle green and glutinous) ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"Only a scraping of shoes on the mat? ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Anything like the sound of a rat", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Makes my heart go pit-a-pat!\" ", "") ?>
PagePoem(81, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"Come in!\"—the Mayor cried, looking bigger ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And in did come the strangest figure!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "His queer long coat from heel to head ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Was half of yellow and half of red, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And he himself was tall and thin, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "With sharp blue eyes, each like a pin, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And light loose hair, yet swarthy skin, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "No tuft on cheek nor beard on chin, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But lips where smiles went out and in; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "There was no guessing his kith and kin: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And nobody could enough admire ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The tall man and his quaint attire. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Quoth one: \"It's as my great-grandsire, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Starting up at the Trump of Doom's tone, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Had walked this way from his painted tombstone!\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "He advanced to the council table:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And, \"Please your honors,\" said he, \"I'm able, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "By means of a secret charm, to draw", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "All creatures living beneath the sun, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "That creep or swim or fly or run, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "After me so as you never saw!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And I chiefly use my charm", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "On creatures that do people harm,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The mole and toad and newt and viper;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And people call me the Pied Piper.\" ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "(And here they noticed round his neck ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "A scarf of red and yellow stripe,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To match with his coat of the selfsame check; ", "") ?>
PagePoem(82, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And at the scarf's end hung a pipe;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And his fingers, they noticed, were ever straying ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "As if impatient to be playing", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Upon this pipe, as low it dangled ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Over his vesture so old-fangled.) ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"Yet,\" said he, \"poor piper as I am, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "In Tartary I freed the Cham,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", " Last June, from his huge swarms of gnats; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", " I eased in Asia the Nizam", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", " Of a monstrous brood of vampire bats: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", " And as for what your brain bewilders, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", " If I can rid your town of rats", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Will you give me a thousand guilders?\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", " One? fifty thousand!\"—was the exclamation ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", " Of the astonished Mayor and Corporation.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Into the street the Piper stepped, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Smiling first a little smile,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "As if he knew what magic slept ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "In his quiet pipe the while; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Then, like a musical adept,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To blow the pipe his lips he wrinkled,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And green and blue his sharp eyes twinkled, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Like a candle flame where salt is sprinkled; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And ere three shrill notes the pipe uttered, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "You heard as if an army muttered;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And the muttering grew to a grumbling;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And the grumbling grew to a mighty rumbling; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And out of the houses the rats came tumbling. ", "") ?>
PagePoem(83, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Great rats, small rats, lean rats, brawny rats, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Brown rats, black rats, gray rats, tawny rats, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Grave old plodders, gay young friskers,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", " Fathers, mothers, uncles, cousins, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", " Cocking tails and pricking whiskers, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", " Families by tens and dozens, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", " Brothers, sisters, husbands, wives—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", " Followed the Piper for their lives. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", " From street to street he piped advancing, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", " And step for step they followed dancing, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", " Until they came to the river Weser,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", " Wherein all plunged and perished! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", " Save one who, stout as Julius Caesar, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", " Swam across and lived to carry", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", " (As he, the manuscript he cherished) ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", " To Rat-land home his commentary: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", " Which was, \"At the first shrill notes of the pipe, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", " I heard a sound as of scraping tripe,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And putting apples, wondrous ripe, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Into a cider press's gripe:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And a moving away of pickle-tub boards, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And a leaving ajar of conserve-cupboards, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And a drawing the corks of train-oil flasks, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And a breaking the hoops of butter casks: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And it seemed as if a voice", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", " (Sweeter far than by harp or by psaltery ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", " Is breathed) called out, 'O rats, rejoice!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "The world is grown to one vast drysaltery!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "So munch on, crunch on, take your nuncheon, ", "") ?>
PagePoem(84, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Breakfast, supper, dinner, luncheon!' ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And just as a bulky sugar puncheon, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "All ready staved, like a great sun shone ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Glorious scarce an inch before me,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Just as methought it said: 'Come, bore me!'", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "—I found the Weser rolling o'er me.\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "You should have heard the Hamelin people ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Ringing the bells till they rocked the steeple. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"Go,\" cried the Mayor, \"and get long poles, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Poke out the nests and block up the holes! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Consult with carpenters and builders,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And leave in our town not even a trace", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Of the rats!\"—when suddenly, up the face ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Of the Piper perked in the market place,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "With a, \"First, if you please, my thousand guilders!\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "A thousand guilders! The Mayor looked blue; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "So did the Corporation too.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "For council dinners made rare havoc", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "With Claret, Moselle, Vin-de-Grave, Hock; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And half the money would replenish", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Their cellar's biggest butt with Rhenish. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To pay this sum to a wandering fellow ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "With a gypsy coat of red and yellow! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"Beside,\" quoth the Mayor with a knowing wink, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"Our business was done at the river's brink;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "We saw with our eyes the vermin sink,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And what's dead can't come to life, I think.", "") ?>
PagePoem(85, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "So, friend, we're not the folks to shrink", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "From the duty of giving you something for drink, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And a matter of money to put in your poke; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But as for the guilders, what we spoke", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Of them, as you very well know, was in joke. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Beside, our losses have made us thrifty.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "A thousand guilders! Come, take fifty!\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The Piper's face fell, and he cried ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"No trifling! I can't wait, beside!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I've promised to visit by dinner time ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Bagdat, and accept the prime", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Of the Head Cook's pottage, all he's rich in,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "For having left, in the Caliph's kitchen, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Of a nest of scorpions no survivor", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "With him I proved no bargain driver, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "With you, don't think I'll bate a stiver! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And folks who put me in a passion", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "May find me pipe after another fashion.\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"How?\" cried the Mayor, \"d' ye think I brook", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Being worse treated than a Cook? ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Insulted by a lazy ribald", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "With idle pipe and vesture piebald?", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "You threaten us, fellow? Do your worst, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Blow your pipe there till you burst!\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Once more he stept into the street ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And to his lips again", "") ?>
PagePoem(86, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Laid his long pipe of smooth straight cane; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And ere he blew three notes (such sweet ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Soft notes as yet musician's cunning", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Never gave the enraptured air)", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "There was a rustling that seemed like a bustling ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Of merry crowds justling at pitching and hustling; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Small feet were pattering, wooden shoes clattering, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Little hands clapping and little tongues chattering. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And, like fowls in a farmyard when barley is scattering, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Out came the children running.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "All the little boys and girls,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "With rosy cheeks and flaxen curls,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And sparkling eyes and teeth like pearls, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Tripping and skipping, ran merrily after ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The wonderful music with shouting and laughter.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The Mayor was dumb, and the Council stood ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "As if they were changed into blocks of wood, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Unable to move a step, or cry", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To the children merrily skipping by,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "—Could only follow with the eye ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "That joyous crowd at the Piper's back. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But how the Mayor was on the rack, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And the wretched Council's bosoms beat, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "As the Piper turned from the High Street ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To where the Weser rolled its waters", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Right in the way of their sons and daughters! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "However, he turned from south to west,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And to Koppelberg Hill his steps addressed, ", "") ?>
PagePoem(87, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And after him the children pressed; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Great was the joy in every breast.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2DQ", "", " \"He never can cross that mighty top! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "He's forced to let the piping drop,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", " And we shall see our children stop!\" ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "When, lo, as they reached the mountain-side, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "A wondrous portal opened wide,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "As if a cavern was suddenly hollowed;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And the Piper advanced and the children followed, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And when all were in to the very last,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The door in the mountain-side shut fast, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Did I say, all? No! One was lame,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", " And could not dance the whole of the way; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", " And in after years, if you would blame", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "His sadness, he was used to say,—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"It's dull in our town since my playmates left! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I can't forget that I'm bereft", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Of all the pleasant sights they see, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Which the Piper also promised me, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "For he led us, he said, to a joyous land, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Joining the town and just at hand,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Where waters gushed, and fruit trees grew, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And flowers put forth a fairer hue,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And everything was strange and new;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The sparrows were brighter than peacocks here, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And their dogs outran our fallow deer,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And honey-bees had lost their stings, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And horses were born with eagles' wings: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And just as I became assured", "") ?>
PagePoem(88, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "My lame foot would be speedily cured, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The music stopped and I stood still, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And found myself outside the hill, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Left alone against my will,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To go now limping as before,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And never hear of that country more!\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Alas, alas for Hamelin!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "There came into many a burgher's pate ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "A text which says that heaven's gate ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Opes to the rich at as easy rate", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "As the needle's eye takes a camel in!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The Mayor sent east, west, north, and south, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To offer the Piper, by word of mouth, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Whenever it was men's lot to find him, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Silver and gold to his heart's content,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "If he'd only return the way he went, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And bring the children behind him. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But when they saw 't was a lost endeavor, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And Piper and dancers were gone forever, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "They made a decree that lawyers never", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Should think their records dated duly ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "If, after the day of the month and year, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "These words did not as well appear, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"And so long after what happened here ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "On the Twenty-second of July, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Thirteen hundred and seventy-six\": ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And the better in memory to fix", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The place of the children's last retreat, ", "") ?>
PagePoem(89, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "They called it, the Pied Piper's Street—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Where any one playing on pipe or tabor ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Was sure for the future to lose his labor. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Nor suffered they hostelry or tavern", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "To shock with mirth a street so solemn; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But opposite the place of the cavern ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "They wrote the story on a column, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And on the great church-window painted ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The same, to make the world acquainted ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "How their children were stolen away, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And there it stands to this very day.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And I must not omit to say", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "That in Transylvania there's a tribe ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Of alien people who ascribe", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The outlandish ways and dress", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "On which their neighbors lay such stress, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To their fathers and mothers having risen ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Out of some subterraneous prison", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Into which they were trepanned ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Long time ago in a mighty band ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Out of Hamelin town in Brunswick land, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But how or why, they don't understand.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "So, Willy, let me and you be wipers", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Of scores out with all men—especially pipers!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And, whether they pipe us free from rats or from mice, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "If we've promised them aught, let us keep our promise!", "") ?>
PoemAttribution("85", SmallCapsText("—Robert Browning.")) ?>
PoemEnd() ?>
StoryTitle("caps", "Allen-a-Dale") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PagePoem(90, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Allen-a-Dale has no fagot for burning, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Allen-a-Dale has no furrow for turning, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Allen-a-Dale has no fleece for the spinning, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Yet Allen-a-Dale has red gold for the winning. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Come, read me my riddle! come, hearken my tale! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And tell me the craft of bold Allen-a-Dale.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The Baron of Ravensworth prances in pride, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And he views his domains upon Arkindale side; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The mere for his net, and the land for his game; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The chase for the wild and the park for the tame; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Yet the fish of the lake, and the deer of the vale, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Are less free to Lord Dacre than Allen-a-Dale!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Allen-a-Dale was ne'er belted a knight,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Though his spur be as sharp, and his blade be as bright; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Allen-a-Dale is no baron or lord,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Yet twenty tall yeomen will draw at his word, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And the best of our nobles his bonnet will vail ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Who at Rere-cross on Stanmore meets Allen-a-Dale!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Allen-a-Dale to his wooing is come;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The mother, she ask'd of his household and home; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"Though the castle of Richmond stand fair on the hill, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "My hall,\" quoth bold Allen, \"shows gallanter still;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "'T is the blue vault of heaven, with its crescent so pale, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And with all its bright spangles,\" said Allen-a-Dale.", "") ?>
PagePoem(91, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The father was steel, and the mother was stone; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "They lifted the latch, and they bade him begone; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But loud on the morrow, their wail and their cry; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "He had laugh'd on the lass with his bonny black eye, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And she fled to the forest to hear a love-tale,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And the youth it was told by was Allen-a-Dale!", "") ?>
PoemAttribution("85", SmallCapsText("—Sir Walter Scott.")) ?>
PoemEnd() ?>
StoryTitle("caps", "The Bonnets o' Bonnie Dundee") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To the Lords o' Convention 't was Claver'se who spoke,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "'Ere the king's crown shall fall, there are crowns to be broke;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "So let each cavalier who loves honor and me ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Come follow the bonnets o' Bonnie Dundee!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Come fill up my cup, come fill up my can!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Come saddle your horses, and call out your men; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Come open the West Port and let me gang free, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And it's room for the bonnets o' Bonnie Dundee!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Dundee he is mounted, he rides up the street,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The bells are rung backwards, the drums they are beat; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But the provost, donce man, said, \"Just e'en let him be,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The Gude Town is well quit of that deil of Dundee!\" ", "") ?>
PagePoem(92, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "As he rode down the sanctified bends of the bow, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Ilk carline was flyting and shaking her pow;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But the young plants o' grace they looked couthie and slee,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Thinking, Luck to thy bonnet, thou Bonnie Dundee!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "With sour-featured Whigs the Grass Market was cramm'd,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "As if half the west had set tryst to be hanged;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "There was spite in each look, there was fear in each ee, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "As they watched for the bonnets o' Bonnie Dundee.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "These cowls of Kilmarnock had spits and had spears, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And lang-hafted gullies to kill Cavaliers;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But they shrunk to close-heads, and the causeway was free", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "At the toss o' the bonnet o' Bonnie Dundee.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "He spurred to the foot o' the proud castle rock, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And with the gay Gordon he gallantly spoke: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"Let Mons Meg and her marrows speak twa words or three,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "For the love o' the bonnet o' Bonnie Dundee.\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The Gordon demands of him which way he goes, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"Where'er shall direct me the shade o' Montrose! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Your grace in short space shall hear tidings of me, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Or that low lies the bonnet o' Bonnie Dundee.", "") ?>
PagePoem(93, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"There are hills beyond Pentland and lands beyond Forth;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "If there's lords in the lowland, there's chiefs in the north;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "There are wild Duniewassals three thousand times three ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Will cry 'Hey!' for the bonnet o' Bonnie Dundee.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"There's brass on the target of barken'd bull-hide, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "There's steel in the scabbard that dangles beside; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The brass shall be burnished, the steel shall flash free, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "At a toss o' the bonnet o' Bonnie Dundee.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"Away to the hills, to the caves, to the rocks, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Ere I own a usurper I'll couch with the fox: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And tremble, false Whigs, in the midst of your glee, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Ye have no seen the last o' my Bonnet and me.\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "He waved his proud hand, and the trumpets were blown. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The kettle-drums clashed, and the horsemen rode on. Till, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "on Ravelston's cliffs and on Clermiston's lea ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Died away the wild war-notes o' Bonnie Dundee.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Come fill up my cup, come fill up my can, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Come saddle the horses, and call up the men; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Come open your gates, and let me gang free, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "For it's up with the bonnets o' Bonnie Dundee.", "") ?>
PoemAttribution("85", SmallCapsText("—Sir Walter Scott.")) ?>
PoemEnd() ?>
StoryTitle("caps", "The Campbells Are Comin'") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PagePoem(94, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The Campbells are comin', Oho, Oho, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The Campbells are comin', Oho, Oho, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The Campbells are comin' to bonnie Lochleven, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The Campbells are comin', Oho, Oho!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Upon the Lomonds, I lay, I lay, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Upon the Lomonds, I lay, I lay,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I lookit down to bonnie Lochleven ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And saw three bonnie perches play, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "The Campbells are comin', Oho, Oho.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Great Argyle he goes before,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "He makes his cannons and guns to roar; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Wi' sound o' trumpet, fife and drum, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The Campbells are comin', Oho, Oho! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "The Campbells are comin', Oho, Oho.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The Campbells they are a' wi' arms, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Their loyal faith and truth to show, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Wi' banners rattlin' in the wind", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "The Campbells are comin', Oho, Oho ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The Campbells are comin', Oho, Oho.", "") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>
StoryTitle("caps", "My Heart's in the Highlands") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PagePoem(95, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "My heart's in the Highlands, my heart is not here; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "My heart's in the Highlands a-chasing the deer; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Chasing the wild deer, and following the roe,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "My heart's in the Highlands wherever I go. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Farewell to the Highlands, farewell to the North, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The birthplace of valor, the country of worth; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Wherever I wander, wherever I rove,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The hills of the Highlands forever I love.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Farewell to the mountains high covered with snow; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Farewell to the straths and green valleys below; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Farewell to the forests and wild-hanging woods; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Farewell to the torrents and loud-pouring floods. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "My heart's in the Highlands, my heart is not here, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "My heart's in the Highlands a-chasing the deer; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Chasing the wild deer, and following the roe,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "My heart's in the Highlands wherever I go.", "") ?>
PoemAttribution("85", SmallCapsText("—Robert Burns.")) ?>
PoemEnd() ?>
StoryTitle("caps", "The Skeleton in Armor") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PagePoem(96, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"Speak! speak! thou fearful guest! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Who, with thy hollow breast", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Still in rude armor drest, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L3", "", "Comest to daunt me! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Wrapt not in Eastern balms, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But with thy fleshless palms ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Stretched, as if asking alms, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L3", "", "Why dost thou haunt me?\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Then from those cavernous eyes ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Pale flashes seemed to rise,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "As when the Northern skies ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L3", "", "Gleam in December; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And, like the water's flow ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Under December's snow, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Came a dull voice of woe ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L3", "", "From the heart's chamber.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"I was a Viking old!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "My deeds, though manifold, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "No Skald in song has told, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L3", "", "No Saga taught thee! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Take heed, that in thy verse ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Thou dost the tale rehearse, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Else dread a dead man's curse; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L3", "", "For this I sought thee.", "") ?>
PagePoem(97, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"Far in the Northern Land, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "By the wild Baltic's strand, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I, with my childish hand, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L3", "", "Tamed the gerfalcon;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And, with my skates fast bound, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Skimmed the half-frozen Sound, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "That the poor whimpering hound ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L3", "", "Trembled to walk on.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"Oft to his frozen lair ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Tracked I the grisly bear, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "While from my path the hare", "") ?>
PoemLine("L3", "", "Fled like a shadow; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Oft through the forest dark ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Followed the werewolf's bark, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Until the soaring lark", "") ?>
PoemLine("L3", "", "Sang from the meadow.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"But when I older grew, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Joining a corsair's crew, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "O'er the dark sea I flew", "") ?>
PoemLine("L3", "", "With the marauders. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Wild was the life we led; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Many the souls that sped, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Many the hearts that bled, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L3", "", "By our stern orders.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"Many a wassail bout ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Wore the long Winter out;", "") ?>
PagePoem(98, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Often our midnight shout ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L3", "", "Set the cocks crowing, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "As we the Berserk's tale ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Measured in cups of ale, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Draining the oaken pail ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L3", "", "Filled to o'erflowing.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"Once as I told in glee ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Tales of the stormy sea, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Soft eyes did gaze on me,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L3", "", "Burning yet tender ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And as the white stars shine ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "On the dark Norway pine,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "On that dark heart of mine ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L3", "", "Fell their soft splendor.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"I wooed the blue-eyed maid, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Yielding, yet half afraid, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And in the forest's shade", "") ?>
PoemLine("L3", "", "Our vows were plighted. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Under its loosened vest ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Fluttered her little breast, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Like birds within their nest ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L3", "", "By the hawk frighted.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"Bright in her father's hall ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Shields gleamed upon the wall, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Loud sang the minstrels all, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L3", "", "Chanting his glory.", "") ?>
PagePoem(99, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "When of old Hildebrand", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I asked his daughter's hand,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Mute did the minstrels stand ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L3", "", "To hear my story.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"While the brown ale he quaffed, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Loud then the champion laughed, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And as the wind gusts waft", "") ?>
PoemLine("L3", "", " The sea foam brightly, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", " So the loud laugh of scorn, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", " Out of those lips unshorn, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", " From the deep drinking horn ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L3", "", " Blew the foam lightly.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"She was a Prince's child, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I was a Viking wild,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And though she blushed and smiled, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L3", "", "I was discarded!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Should not the dove so white ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Follow the sea mew's flight? ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Why did they leave that night ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L3", "", "Her nest unguarded?", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"Scarce had I put to sea, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Bearing the maid with me,—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Fairest of all was she", "") ?>
PoemLine("L3", "", " Among the Norsemen!—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", " When on the white sea strand, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", " Waving his armèd hand,", "") ?>
PagePoem(100, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Saw we old Hildebrand ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L3", "", "With twenty horsemen.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"Then launched they to the blast, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Bent like a reed each mast,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Yet we were gaining fast, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L3", "", "When the wind failed us; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And with a sudden flaw ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Came round the gusty Skaw, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "So that our foe we saw ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L3", "", "Laugh as he hailed us.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"And as to catch the gale ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Round veered the flapping sail, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "'Death!' was the helmsman's hail,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L3", "", "'Death without quarter!' ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Midships with iron keel ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Struck we her ribs of steel; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Down her black hulk did reel ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L3", "", "Through the black water!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"As with his wings aslant, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Sails the fierce cormorant, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Seeking some rocky haunt,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L3", "", " With his prey laden, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", " So toward the open main, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", " Beating to sea again, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", " Through the wild hurricane, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L3", "", " Bore I the maiden.", "") ?>
PagePoem(101, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"Three weeks we westward bore, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And when the storm was o'er, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Cloudlike we saw the shore", "") ?>
PoemLine("L3", "", "Stretching to leeward! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "There for my lady's bower ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Built I the lofty tower ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Which to this very hour ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L3", "", "Stands looking seaward.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"There lived we many years; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Time dried the maiden's tears; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "She had forgot her fears,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L3", "", "She was a mother;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Death closed her mild blue eyes; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Under that tower she lies; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Ne'er shall the sun arise", "") ?>
PoemLine("L3", "", "On such another!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"Still grew my bosom then, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Still as a stagnant fen! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Hateful to me were men,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L3", "", "The sunlight hateful! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "In the vast forest here,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Clad in my warlike gear, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Fell I upon my spear,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L3", "", "Oh, death was grateful!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"Thus, seamed with many scars, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Bursting these prison bars,", "") ?>
PagePoem(102, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Up to its native stars ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L3", "", "My soul ascended! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "There from the flowing bowl, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Deep drinks the warrior's soul, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Skoal! to the Northland! skoal!\" ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L3", "", "Thus the tale ended. ", "") ?>
PoemAttribution("85", SmallCapsText("—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.")) ?>
PoemEnd() ?>
StoryTitle("caps", "Ceremonies for Christmas") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Come, bring with a noise, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "My merry, merry boys, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The Christmas log to the firing, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "While my good dame she ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Bids ye all be free, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And drink to your heart's desiring.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "With the last year's brand, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Light the new block, and ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "For good success in his spending,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "On your psalteries play ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "That sweet luck may ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Come while the log is a-tending. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Drink now the strong beer, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Cut the white loaf here. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The while the meat is a-shredding; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "For the rare mince-pie, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And the plums stand by, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To fill the paste that's a-kneading. ", "") ?>
PoemAttribution("85", SmallCapsText("—Robert Herrick. ")) ?>
PoemEnd() ?>
StoryTitle("caps", "The Inchcape Rock") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PagePoem(103, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "No stir in the air, no stir in the sea,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The ship was as still as she could be,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Her sails from heaven received no motion,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Her keel was steady in the ocean.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Without either sign or sound of their shock,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The waves flow'd over the Inchcape Rock;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "So little they rose, so little they fell,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", " They did not move the Inchcape Bell.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The good old Abbot of Aberbrothok", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Had placed that bell on the Inchcape Rock;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "On a buoy in the storm it floated and swung,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And over the waves its warning rung.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "When the Rock was hid by the surge's swell,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The mariners heard the warning bell;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And then they knew the perilous Rock,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And blest the Abbot of Aberbrothok.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The sun in heaven was shining gay,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "All things were joyful on that day;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The sea-birds scream'd as they wheel'd round,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And there was joyance in their sound.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The buoy of the Inchcape Bell was seen", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "A darker speck on the ocean green:", "") ?>
PagePoem(104, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Sir Ralph the Rover walk'd his deck, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And he fix'd his eyes on the darker speck.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "He felt the cheering power of spring,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "It made him whistle, it made him sing; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "His heart was mirthful to excess,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But the Rover's mirth was wickedness.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "His eye was on the Inchcape float; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Quoth he, \"My men, put out the boat, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And row me to the Inchcape Rock,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And I'll plague the priest of Aberbrothok.\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The boat is lower'd, the boatmen row, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And to the Inchcape Rock they go; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Sir Ralph bent over from the boat,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And he cut the bell from the Inchcape float.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Down sunk the bell, with a gurgling sound, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The bubbles rose and burst around;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Quoth Sir Ralph, \"The next who comes to the Rock ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Won't bless the Abbot of Aberbrothok.\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Sir Ralph the Rover sail'd away", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "He scour'd the seas for many a day;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And now grown rich with plunder'd store, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "He steers his course for Scotland's shore.", "") ?>
PagePoem(105, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "So thick a haze o'erspreads the sky ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "They cannot see the sun on high; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The wind hath blown a gale all day, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "At evening it hath died away.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "On the deck the Rover takes his stand, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "So dark it is they see no land,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Quoth Sir Ralph, \"It will be lighter soon, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "For there is the dawn of the rising moon.\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"Canst hear,\" said one, \"the breakers roar? ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "For methinks we should be near the shore; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Now where we are I cannot tell,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But I wish I could hear the Inchcape Bell.\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "They hear no sound, the swell is strong; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Though the wind hath fallen, they drift along, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Till the vessel strikes with a shivering shock; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Cried they, \"It is the Inchcape Rock!\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Sir Ralph the Rover tore his hair, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "He curst himself in his despair; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The waves rush in on every side, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The ship is sinking beneath the tide.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But even in his dying fear", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "One dreadful sound could the Rover hear, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "A sound as if, with the Inchcape Bell, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The fiends below were ringing his knell.", "") ?>
PoemAttribution("85", SmallCapsText("—Robert Southey.")) ?>
PoemEnd() ?>
StoryTitle("caps", "The Forsaken Merman") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PagePoem(106, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Come, dear children, let us away, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Down and away below!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Now my brothers call from the bay, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Now the great winds shoreward blow, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Now the salt tides seaward flow; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Now the wild white horses play, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Champ and chafe and toss in the spray. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Children dear, let us away!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "This way, this way! ", "") ?>
PagePoem(107, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Call her once before you go—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Call once yet!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "In a voice that she will know: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"Margaret! Margaret!\" ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Children's voices should be dear ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "(Call once more) to a mother's ear; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Children's voices, wild with pain—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Surely she will come again!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Call her once, and come away; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "This way, this way!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"Mother dear, we cannot stay!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The wild white horses foam and fret.\" ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Margaret! Margaret!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Come, dear children, come away down; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Call no more!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "One last look at the white-wall'd town,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And the little grey church on the windy shore; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Then come down!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "She will not come though you call all day; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Come away, come away!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Children dear, was it yesterday", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "We heard the sweet bells over the bay? ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "In the caverns where we lay,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Through the surf and through the swell, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The far-off sound of a silver bell? ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Sand-strewn caverns, cool and deep, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Where the winds are all asleep;", "") ?>
PagePoem(108, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Where the spent lights quiver and gleam, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Where the salt weed sways in the stream, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Where the sea-beasts, ranged all round ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Feed in the ooze of their pasture-ground; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Where the sea snakes coil and twine, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Dry their mail and bask in the brine; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Where great whales come sailing by, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Sail and sail, with unshut eye,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Round the world for ever and aye? ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "When did music come this way? ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Children dear, was it yesterday?", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Children dear, was it yesterday ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "(Call yet once) that she went away? ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Once she sate with you and me,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "On a red gold throne in the heart of the sea, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And the youngest sate on her knee.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "She comb'd its bright hair, and she tended it well, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "When down swung the sound of a far-off bell.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "She sigh'd, she look'd up through the clear green sea;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "She said: \"I must go, for my kinsfolk pray ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "In the little grey church on the shore to-day. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "'Twill be Easter-time in the world—ah me! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And I lose my poor soul, Merman! here with thee.\" ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I said: \"Go up, dear heart, through the waves;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Say thy prayer, and come back to the kind sea-caves!\" ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "She smiled, she went up through the surf in the bay. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Children dear, was it yesterday?", "") ?>
PagePoem(109, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Children dear, were we long alone?", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"The sea grows stormy, the little ones moan; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Long prayers,\" I said, \"in the world they say; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Come\"! I said; and we rose through the surf in the bay.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "We went up the beach, by the sandy down", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Where the sea stocks bloom, to the white-wall'd town; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Through the narrow pav'd streets, where all was still, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To the little grey church on the windy hill.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "From the church came a murmur of folks at their prayers,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But we stood without in the cold blowing airs.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "We climb'd on the graves, on the stones worn with rains, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And we gazed up the aisle through the small leaded panes.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "She sate by the pillar; we saw her clear:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"Margaret, hist! come quick; we are here! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Dear heart, \" I said, \"we are long alone:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The sea grows stormy, the little ones moan.\" ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But, ah, she gave me never a look,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "For her eyes were seal'd to the holy book! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Loud prays the priest: shut stands the door. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Come away, children, call no more! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Come away, come down, call no more!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Down, down, down!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Down to the depths of the sea!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "She sits at her wheel in the humming town, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Singing most joyfully.", "") ?>
PagePoem(110, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Hark what she sings: \"O joy, O joy,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "For the humming street, and the child with its toy!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "For the priest, and the bell, and the holy well;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "For the wheel where I spun,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And the blessèd light of the sun!\" ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And so she sings her fill.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Singing most joyfully,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Till the spindle drops from her hand, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And the whizzing wheel stands still. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "She steals to the window, and looks at the sand, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And over the sand at the sea;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And her eyes are set in a stare; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And anon there breaks a sigh, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And anon there drops a tear, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "From a sorrow-clouded eye, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And a heart sorrow laden,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "A long, long sigh;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "For the cold strange eyes of a little Mermaiden", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And the gleam of her golden hair.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Come away, away, children; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Come, children, come down!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The hoarse wind blows colder; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Lights shine in the town.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "She will start from her slumber", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "When gusts shake the door;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "She will hear the winds howling, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Will hear the waves roar.", "") ?>
PagePoem(111, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "We shall see, while above us ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The waves roar and whirl, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "A ceiling of amber,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "A pavement of pearl.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Singing: \"Here came a mortal,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But faithless was she!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And alone dwell forever ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The kings of the sea.\" ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But, children, at midnight, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "When soft the winds blow, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "When clear falls the moonlight, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "When springtides are low; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "When sweet airs come seaward ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "From heaths starr'd with broom, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And high rocks throw mildly ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "On the blanch'd sands a gloom; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Up the still, glistening beaches, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Up the creeks we will hie,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Over banks of bright seaweed, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The ebb-tide leaves dry.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "We will gaze, from the sand hills, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "At the white, sleeping town;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "At the church on the hillside—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And then come back down. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Singing: \"There dwells a lov'd one, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But cruel is she!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "She left lonely for ever ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The kings of the sea.\"", "") ?>
PoemAttribution("85", SmallCapsText("—Matthew Arnold.")) ?>
PoemEnd() ?>
StoryTitle("caps", "The Charge of the Light Brigade") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PagePoem(112, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Half a league, half a league,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Half a league onward,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "All in the valley of Death", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Rode the six hundred.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"Forward, the Light Brigade!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Charge for the guns!\" he said:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Into the valley of Death", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Rode the six hundred.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"Forward, the Light Brigade!\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Was there a man dismay'd?", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Not tho' the soldier knew", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Someone had blunder'd:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Theirs not to make reply,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Theirs not to reason why,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Theirs but to do and die,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Into the valley of Death", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Rode the six hundred.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Cannon to right of them,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Cannon to left of them,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Cannon in front of them", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Volley'd and thunder'd;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Storm'd at with shot and shell,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Boldly they rode and well,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Into the jaws of Death,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Into the mouth of Hell", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Rode the six hundred.", "") ?>
PagePoem(113, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Flash'd all their sabres bare,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Flash'd as they turn'd in air,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Sab'ring the gunners there,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Charging an army, while", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "All the world wonder'd:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Plunged in the battery-smoke", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Right thro' the line they broke;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Cossack and Russian", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Reel'd from the sabre stroke", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Shatter'd and sunder'd.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Then they rode back, but not—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Not the six hundred.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Cannon to right of them,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Cannon to left of them,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Cannon behind them", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Volley'd and thunder'd;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Storm'd at with shot and shell,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "While horse and hero fell,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "They that had fought so well", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Came thro' the jaws of Death", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Back from the mouth of Hell,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "All that was left of them,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Left of six hundred.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "When can their glory fade?", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "O the wild charge they made!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "All the world wonder'd.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Honor the charge they made,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Honor the Light Brigade,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Noble six hundred. ", "") ?>
PoemAttribution("85", SmallCapsText("—Alfred Tennyson.")) ?>
PoemEnd() ?>
StoryTitle("caps", "The Star-Spangled Banner") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PagePoem(114, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "O! say, can you see, by the dawn's early light,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "What so proudly we hailed, at the twilight's last gleaming —", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Whose broad stripes and bright stars, through the perilous fight,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "O'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "O! say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "O'er the land of the free, and the home of the brave?", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "On the shore, dimly seen through the mists of the deep, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "As it fitfully blows, now conceals, now discloses? ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Now it catches the gleam of the morning's first beam, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "In full glory reflected now shines on the stream;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "'Tis the star-spangled banner; Oh, long may it wave ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "O'er the land of the free, and the home of the brave!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And where is that band who so vauntingly swore ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "That the havoc of war and the battle's confusion ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "A home and a country should leave us no more? ", "") ?>
PagePoem(115, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps' pollution.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "No refuge could save the hireling and slave", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "From the terror of flight, or the gloom of the grave, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "O'er the land of the free, and the home of the brave.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "O! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", " Between their loved homes and the war's desolation! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", " Blest with victory and peace, may the heav'n-rescued land", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And this be our motto—\"In God is our trust.\" ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "O'er the land of the free, and the home of the brave!", "") ?>
PoemAttribution("85", SmallCapsText("—Francis Scott Key.")) ?>
PoemEnd() ?>
StoryTitle("caps", "Battle Hymn of the Republic") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "He hath loosed the fateful lightning of His terrible swift sword;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "His truth is marching on.", "") ?>
PagePoem(116, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I have seen him in the watch-fires of a hundred circling camps,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "They have builded him an altar in the evening dews and damps;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I can read His righteous sentence by the dim and flaring lamps:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "His day is marching on.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I have read a fiery gospel, writ in burnished rows of steel:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"As ye deal with my contemners, so with you my grace shall deal;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Let the Hero, born of woman, crush the serpent with his heel,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Since God is marching on.\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "He has sounded forth the trumpet that shall never call retreat;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "He is sifting out the hearts of men before His judgment seat:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Oh! be swift, my soul, to answer Him! be jubilant, my feet!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Our God is marching on.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "With a glory in his bosom that transfigures you and me; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "As he died to make men holy, let us die to make men free,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "While God is marching on.", "") ?>
PoemAttribution("85", SmallCapsText("—Julia Ward Howe.")) ?>
PoemEnd() ?>
StoryTitle("caps", "Paul Revere's Ride") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PagePoem(117, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Listen my children, and you shall hear", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "On the eighteenth of April, in Seventy-five;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Hardly a man is now alive", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Who remembers that famous day and year.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "He said to his friend, \"If the British march", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "By land or sea from the town to-night,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Hang a lantern aloft in the belfry arch", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Of the North Church tower as a signal light,—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "One, if by land, and two, if by sea;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And I on the opposite shore will be,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Ready to ride and spread the alarm", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Through every Middlesex village and farm,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "For the country folk to be up and to arm.\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Then he said \"Good-night!\" and with muffled oar", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Silently rowed to the Charlestown shore,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Just as the moon rose over the bay,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Where swinging wide at her moorings lay", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The Somerset, British man-of-war;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "A phantom ship, with each mast and spar", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Across the moon like a prison bar,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And a huge black hulk, that was magnified", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "By its own reflection in the tide.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Meanwhile, his friend through alley and street", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Wanders and watches with eager ears,", "") ?>
PagePoem(118, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Till in the silence around him he hears", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The muster of men at the barrack door,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The sound of arms, and the tramp of feet,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And the measured tread of the grenadiers,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Marching down to their boats on the shore.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Then he climbed the tower of the Old North Church,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "By the wooden stairs, with stealthy tread,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To the belfry-chamber overhead,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And startled the pigeons from their perch", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "On the sombre rafters, that round him made", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Masses and moving shapes of shade,—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "By the trembling ladder, steep and tall,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To the highest window in the wall,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Where he paused to listen and look down", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "A moment on the roofs of the town,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And the moonlight flowing over all.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Beneath, in the churchyard, lay the dead,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "In their night encampment on the hill,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Wrapped in silence so deep and still", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "That he could hear, like a sentinel's tread,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The watchful night-wind, as it went", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Creeping along from tent to tent,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And seeming to whisper, \"All is well!\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "A moment only he feels the spell", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Of the place and the hour, and the secret dread", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Of the lonely belfry and the dead;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "For suddenly all his thoughts are bent", "") ?>
PagePoem(119, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "On a shadowy something far away,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Where the river widens to meet the bay,—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "A line of black that bends and floats", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "On the rising tide like a bridge of boats.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Meanwhile, impatient to mount and ride,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Booted and spurred, with a heavy stride", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "On the opposite shore walked Paul Revere.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Now he patted his horse's side,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Now he gazed at the landscape far and near,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Then, impetuous, stamped the earth,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And turned and tightened his saddle girth;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But mostly he watched with eager search", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The belfry tower of the Old North Church,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "As it rose above the graves on the hill,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Lonely and spectral and sombre and still.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And lo! as he looks, on the belfry's height", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "A glimmer, and then a gleam of light!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "He springs to the saddle, the bridle he turns,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But lingers and gazes, till full on his sight", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "A second lamp in the belfry burns.", "") ?>
< PoemLine("L0", "", "A hurry of hoofs in a village street,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "A shape in the moonlight, a bulk in the dark,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And beneath, from the pebbles, in passing, a spark", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Struck out by a steed flying fearless and fleet:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "That was all! And yet, through the gloom and the light,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The fate of a nation was riding that night;", "") ?>
PagePoem(120, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And the spark struck out by that steed, in his flight,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Kindled the land into flame with its heat.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "He has left the village and mounted the steep,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And beneath him, tranquil and broad and deep,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Is the Mystic, meeting the ocean tides;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And under the alders that skirt its edge,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Now soft on the sand, now loud on the ledge,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Is heard the tramp of his steed as he rides.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "It was twelve by the village clock", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "When he crossed the bridge into Medford town.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "He heard the crowing of the cock,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And the barking of the farmer's dog,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And felt the damp of the river fog,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "That rises after the sun goes down.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "It was one by the village clock,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "When he galloped into Lexington.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "He saw the gilded weathercock", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Swim in the moonlight as he passed,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And the meeting-house windows, blank and bare,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Gaze at him with a spectral glare,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "As if they already stood aghast", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "At the bloody work they would look upon.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "It was two by the village clock,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "When he came to the bridge in Concord town.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "He heard the bleating of the flock,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And the twitter of birds among the trees,", "") ?>
PagePoem(121, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And felt the breath of the morning breeze", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Blowing over the meadow brown.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And one was safe and asleep in his bed", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Who at the bridge would be first to fall,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Who that day would be lying dead,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Pierced by a British musket ball.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "You know the rest. In the books you have read", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "How the British Regulars fired and fled, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "How the farmers gave them ball for ball,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "From behind each fence and farmyard wall,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Chasing the red-coats down the lane,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Then crossing the fields to emerge again", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Under the trees at the turn of the road,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And only pausing to fire and load.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "So through the night rode Paul Revere;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And so through the night went his cry of alarm", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To every Middlesex village and farm,—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "A cry of defiance, and not of fear,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "A voice in the darkness, a knock at the door,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And a word that shall echo forevermore!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "For, borne on the night-wind of the Past,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Through all our history, to the last,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "In the hour of darkness and peril and need,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The people will waken and listen to hear", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The hurrying hoof beats of that steed,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And the midnight message of Paul Revere. ", "") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>
PoemAttribution("85", SmallCapsText("—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.")) ?>
PoemEnd() ?>
StoryTitle("caps", "Nathan Hale") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PagePoem(122, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To drum-beat and heart-beat, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "A soldier marches by;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "There is color in his cheek, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "There is courage in his eye, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Yet to drum-beat and heart-beat ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "In a moment he must die.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "By starlight and moonlight, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "He seeks the Briton's camp; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "He hears the rustling flag, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And the armed sentry's tramp; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And the starlight and moonlight ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "His silent wanderings lamp.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "With slow tread and still tread, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "He scans the tented line;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And he counts the battery guns ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "By the gaunt and shadowy pine; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And his slow tread and still tread ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Gives no warning sign.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The dark wave, the plumed wave, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "It meets his eager glance;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And it sparkles 'neath the stars, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Like the glimmer of a lance—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "A dark wave, a plumed wave, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "On an emerald expanse.", "") ?>
PagePoem(123, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "A sharp clang, a steel clang, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And terror in the sound! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "For the sentry, falcon-eyed, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "In the camp, a spy hath found; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "With a sharp clang, a steel clang, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The patriot is bound.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "With calm brow, steady brow, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "He listens to his doom;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "In his look there is no fear, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Nor a shadow-trace of gloom; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But with calm brow and steady brow ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "He robes him for the tomb.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "In the long night, the still night, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "He kneels upon the sod;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And the brutal guards withhold ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "E'en the solemn Word of God! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "In the long night, the still night, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "He walks where Christ hath trod.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "'Neath the blue morn, the sunny morn, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "He dies upon the tree;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And he mourns that he can lose ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But one life for Liberty;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And in the blue morn, the sunny morn, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "His spirit-wings are free.", "") ?>
PagePoem(124, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But his last words, his message words, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "They burn, lest friendly eye", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Should read how proud and calm ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "A patriot could die,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "With his last words, his dying words, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "A soldier's battle-cry.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "From the Fame-leaf and Angel-leaf ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "From monument and urn,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The sad of earth, the glad of heaven, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "His tragic fate shall learn;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And on Fame-leaf and Angel-leaf ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The name of Hale shall burn.", "") ?>
PoemAttribution("85", SmallCapsText("—Francis Miles Finch.")) ?>
PoemEnd() ?>