StoryTitle("caps", "A Sand Castle ") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PagePoem(25, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The tide is out, and all the strand ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Is glistening in the summer sun; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Let 's build a castle of the sand—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Oh! will not that be glorious fun? ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "With walls and outworks wide and steep, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "All round about we'll dig a moat, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And in the midst shall be the keep,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Where England's flag may proudly float. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And where a drawbridge ought to be,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "We 'll make a causeway to the shore, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Well paved with stones, for you and me ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "To get to land when tempests roar. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "We'll sit within our citadel,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And watch the tide come o'er the rocks; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But we have built it strong and well;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "It will not fall for common shocks. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The moat may fill, the waves may beat, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "We watch the siege all undismayed, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Because, you know, we can retreat ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Along the causeway we have made.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "\"Haul down your flag!\" \"Oh, no!\" we shout, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Our drums and trumpets heard afar—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The castle sinks; but we march out ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "With all the honors of the war.", "") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>