StoryTitle("caps", "Aladdin") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "When I was a beggarly boy, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And lived in a cellar damp, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I had not a friend nor a toy ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "But I had Aladdin's lamp.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "When I could not sleep for the cold, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "I had fire enough in my brain, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And builded with roofs of gold, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "My beautiful castles in Spain! ", "") ?>
PagePoem(35, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Since then I have toiled day and night, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "I have money and power good store, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But I 'd give all my lamps of silver bright ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "For the one that is mine no more. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Take, Fortune, whatever you choose, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "You gave and may snatch again,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I have nothing 't would pain me to lose, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "For I own no more castles in Spain!", "") ?>
PoemAttribution("85", SmallCapsText("—James Russell Lowell.")) ?>
PoemEnd() ?>