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StoryTitle("caps", "Santa Claus") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PagePoem(85, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "He comes in the night! He comes in the night! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "He softly, silently comes;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "While the little brown heads on the pillows so white ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Are dreaming of bugles and drums.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "He cuts through the snow like a ship through the foam, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "While the white flakes around him whirl;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Who tells him I know not, but he findeth the home ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Of each good little boy and girl.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "His sleigh it is long, and deep, and wide; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "It will carry a host of things,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "While dozens of drums hang over the side, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "With the sticks sticking under the strings.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And yet not the sound of a drum is heard, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Not a bugle blast is blown,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "As he mounts to the chimney-top like a bird, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And drops to the hearth like a stone.", "") ?>
PagePoem(86, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The little red stockings he silently fills, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Till the stockings will hold no more; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The bright little sleds for the great snow hills ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Are quickly set down on the floor.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Then Santa Claus mounts to the roof like a bird, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And glides to his seat in the sleigh;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Not the sound of a bugle or drum is heard ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "As he noiselessly gallops away.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "He rides to the East, and he rides to the West, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Of his goodies he touches not one;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "He eateth the crumbs of the Christmas feast ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "When the dear little folks are done.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Old Santa Claus doeth all that he can; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "This beautiful mission is his;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Then, children, be good to the little old man, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "When you find who the little man is.", "") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>