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StoryTitle("caps", "Shoe or Stocking") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PagePoem(31, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "In Holland, children set their shoes, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "This night, outside the door;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "These wooden shoes Knecht Clobes sees, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And fills them from his store.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But here we hang our stockings up ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "On handy hook or nail;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And Santa Claus, when all is still, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Will plump them, without fail.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Speak out, you Sobersides, speak out, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And let us hear your views; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Between a stocking and a shoe, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "What do you see to choose?", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "One instant pauses Sobersides, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "A little sigh to fetch—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"Well, seems to me a stocking's best, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "For wooden shoes won't stretch!\"", "") ?>
PoemAttribution("85", SmallCapsText("—Edith M. Thomas.")) ?>
PoemEnd() ?>