StoryTitle("caps", "Minnie and Mattie") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PagePoem(70, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Minnie and Mattie", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And fat little May,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Out in the country,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Spending a day.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Such a bright day,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "With the sun glowing,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And the trees half in leaf,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And the grass growing.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Pinky-white pigling", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Squeals through his snout,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Woolly-white lambkin", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Frisks all about.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Cluck! Cluck! the mother hen", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Summons her folk,—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Ducklings all downy soft,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Yellow as yolk.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Cluck! Cluck! the mother hen", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Summons her chickens", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To peck the dainty bits", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Found in her pickings.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Minnie and Mattie", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And May carry posies,", "") ?>
PagePoem(71, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Half of sweet violets, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Half of primroses.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Give the sun time enough, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Glowing and glowing, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "He'll rouse the roses", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And bring them blowing.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Don't wait for roses, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Losing to-day,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "O Minnie, O Mattie ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And wise little May.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Violets and primroses ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Blossom to-day,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "For Minnie and Mattie ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And fat little May.", "") ?>
PoemAttribution("85", SmallCapsText("—Christina G. Rossetti.")) ?>
PoemEnd() ?>
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