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StoryTitle("caps", "The Christmas Tree in the Nursery ") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PagePoem(53, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "With wild surprise", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Four great eyes", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "In two small heads ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "From neighboring beds ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Looked out—and winked—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And glittered and blinked ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "At a very queer sight", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "In the dim dawn-light. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "As plain as can be", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "A fairy tree", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Flashes and glimmers", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And shakes and shimmers. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Red, green, and blue ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Meet their view;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Silver and gold ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Sharp eyes behold; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Small moons, big stars; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And jams in jars,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And cakes and honey ", "") ?>
PagePoem(54, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And thimbles, and money, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Pink dogs, blue cats, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Little squeaking rats, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And candles, and dolls, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And crackers and polls, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "A real bird that sings, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And tokens and favors, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And all sorts of things ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "For the little shavers. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Four black eyes", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Grow big with surprise; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And then grow bigger ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "When a tiny figure, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "jaunty and airy,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "A fairy! a fairy! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "From the treetop cries ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "\"Open wide! Black Eyes! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Come, children, wake now! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Your joys you may take now.\" ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Quick as you can think, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Twenty small toes", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "In four pretty rows, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Like little piggies pink, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "All kick in the air—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And before you can wink ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The tree stands bare!", "") ?>
PoemAttribution("85", SmallCapsText("—Richard Watson Gilder.")) ?>
PoemEnd() ?>