StoryTitle("caps", "Chanticleer ") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PagePoem(65, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I wake! I feel the day is near; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "I hear the red cock crowing! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "He cries \"'Tis dawn!\" How sweet and clear ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "His cheerful call comes to my ear,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "While light is slowly growing.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The white snow gathers, flake on flake; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "I hear the red cock crowing!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Is anybody else awake", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To see the winter morning break, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "While thick and fast 'tis snowing? ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I think the world is all asleep;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "I hear the red cock crowing! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Out of the frosty pane I peep; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The drifts are piled so wide and deep, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And the wild wind is blowing! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Nothing I see has shape or form;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "I hear the red cock crowing!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But that dear voice comes through the storm ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To greet me in my nest so warm,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "As if the sky were glowing! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "A happy little child, I lie", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And hear the red cock crowing. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The day is dark. I wonder why ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "His voice rings out so brave and high, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "With gladness overflowing.", "") ?>
PoemAttribution("85", SmallCapsText("—Celia Thaxter.")) ?>
PoemEnd() ?>