StoryTitle("caps", "One, Two, Three") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PagePoem(89, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "It was an old, old, old, old lady,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And a boy that was half-past three; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And the way that they played together ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Was beautiful to see.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "She couldn't go running and jumping, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And the boy, no more could he; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "For he was a thin little fellow,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "With a thin little twisted knee.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "They sat in the yellow sunlight, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Out under the maple tree;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And the game that was played I'll tell you, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Just as it was told to me.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "It was Hide-and-Go-Seek they were playing, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Though you'd never have known it to be—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "With an old, old, old, old lady,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And a boy with a twisted knee.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The boy would bend his face down ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "On his little sound right knee, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And he guessed where she was hiding, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "In guesses One, Two, Three!", "") ?>
PagePoem(90, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"You are in the china closet!\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "He would cry, and laugh with glee—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "It wasn't the china closet;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "But he still had Two and Three.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"You are up in papa's big bedroom,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "In the chest with the queer old key!\" ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And she said: \"You are warm and warmer; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "But you're not quite right,\" said she.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"It can't be the little cupboard", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Where Mamma's things used to be—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "So it must be the clothespress, Gran'ma!\" ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And he found her with his Three.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Then she covered her face with her fingers, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "That were wrinkled and white and wee, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And she guessed where the boy was hiding, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "With a One and a Two and a Three.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And they never had stirred from their places, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Right under the maple tree—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "This old, old, old, old lady,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And the boy with the lame little knee—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "This dear, dear, dear old lady,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And the boy who was half-past three.", "") ?>
PoemAttribution("85", SmallCapsText("—Henry C. Bunner.")) ?>
PoemEnd() ?>