StoryTitle("caps", "Spring's Waking") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "A snowdrop lay in the sweet, dark ground. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2DQ", "", "\"Come out,\" said the Sun, \"come out!\" ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But she lay quite still and she heard no sound. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2DQ", "", "\"Asleep,\" said the Sun, \"no doubt!\"", "") ?>
PagePoem(88, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The snowdrop heard, for she raised her head. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2DQ", "", "\"Look spry,\" said the Sun, \"look spry!\" ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"It's warm,\" said the snowdrop, \"here in bed.\" ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2DQ", "", "\"O fie!\" said the sun, \"O fie!\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"You call me too soon, Mister Sun, you do.\" ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2DQ", "", "\"No, no,\" said the Sun, \"oh, no!\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"There's something above and I can't see through.\" ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2DQ", "", "\"It 's snow,\" said the Sun, \"just snow.\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"But I say, Mister Sun, are the robins here?\" ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2DQ", "", "\"May be,\" said the Sun, \"may be.\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"There wasn't a bird when you called last year.\" ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2DQ", "", "\"Come out,\" said the Sun, \"and see.\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The snowdrop sighed, for she liked her nap, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And there wasn't a bird in sight;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But she popped out of bed in her white nightcap. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2DQ", "", "\"That's right,\" said the Sun, \"that's right!\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And soon as that small nightcap was seen", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "A robin began to sing", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The air grew warm and the grass turned green.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2DQ", "", "\" 'Tis spring,\" laughed the Sun, \" 'tis spring!\"", "") ?>
PoemAttribution("85", SmallCapsText("—Isabel Eccelstone Mackay.")) ?>
PoemEnd() ?>