StoryTitle("caps", "Nursery Song") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "As I walked over the hill one day,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I listened and heard a mother-sheep say,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"In all the green world there is nothing so sweet, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "As my little lamb, with his nimble feet;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "With his eye so bright, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And his wool so white, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Oh, he is my darling, my heart's delight!\" ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And the mother-sheep and her little one ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Side by side lay down in the sun.", "") ?>
PagePoem(25, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I went to the kitchen and what did I see, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But the old gray cat with her kittens three! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I heard her whispering soft: said she, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"My kittens, with tails so cunningly curled, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Are the prettiest things that can be in the world. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The bird on the tree,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And the old ewe, she,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "May love their babies exceedingly;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But I love my kittens there, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Under the rocking-chair.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I love my kittens with all my might,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I love them at morning, noon, and night.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Now I'll take up my kitties, the kitties I love,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And we'll lie down together, beneath the warm stove.\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I went to the yard and saw the old hen ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Go clucking about with her chickens ten; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "She clucked and she scratched and she bustled away, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And what do you think I heard the hen say?", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I heard her say, \"The sun never did shine", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "On anything like to these chickens of mine;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "You may hunt the full moon, and the stars, if you please,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But you never will find such chickens as these.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "My dear, downy darlings, my sweet little things,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Come, nestle now cozily under my wings.\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "So the hen said,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And the chickens all sped", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "As fast as they could to their nice feather bed.", "") ?>
PoemAttribution("85", SmallCapsText("—Mrs. Carter.")) ?>
PoemEnd() ?>