StoryTitle("caps", "Seven Times One") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "There's no dew left on the daisies and clover", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "There's no rain left in heaven:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I've said my \"seven times\" over and over,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Seven times one are seven.", "") ?>
PagePoem(48, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I am old, so old, I can write a letter; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "My birthday lessons are done; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The lambs play always, they know no better; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "They are only one times one. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "O moon! in the night I have seen you sailing ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And shining so round and low; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "You were bright! ah, bright! but your light is failing,— ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "You are nothing now but a bow. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "You moon, have you done something wrong in heaven ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "That God has hidden your face? ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I hope if you have you will soon be forgiven, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And shine again in your place. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "O velvet bee, you're a dusty fellow, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "You've powdered your legs with gold! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "O brave marsh marybuds, rich and yellow, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Give me your money to hold! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "O columbine, open your folded wrapper, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Where two twin turtledoves dwell ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "O cuckoopint, toll me the purple clapper, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "That hangs in your clear green bell! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And show me your nest with the young ones in it ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "I will not steal them away; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I am old! you may trust me, linnet, linnet— ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "I am seven times one to-day. ", "") ?>
PoemAttribution("85", SmallCapsText("—Jean Ingelow.")) ?>
PoemEnd() ?>