StoryTitle("caps", "Discontent ") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PagePoem(76, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Down in a field, one day in June, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "The flowers all bloomed together, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Save one, who tried to hide herself, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And drooped, that pleasant weather. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "A robin, who had flown too high", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And felt a little lazy,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Was resting near a buttercup, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Who wished she were a daisy. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "For daisies grow so trim and tall; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "She always had a passion", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "For wearing frills around her neck, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "In just the daisies' fashion. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And buttercups must always be ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "The same old, tiresome color, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "While daisies dress in gold and white, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Although their gold is duller.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "\"Dear robin,\" said the sad young flower, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "\"Perhaps you'd not mind trying", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To find a nice white frill for me ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Some day, when you are flying.\" ", "") ?>
PagePoem(77, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "\"You silly thing!\" the robin said, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "\"I think you must be crazy", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I'd rather be my honest self, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Than any made-up daisy.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "\"You're nicer in your own bright gown; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "The little children love you:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Be the best buttercup you can, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And think no flower above you. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "\"Though swallows leave me out of sight, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "We'd better keep our places:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Perhaps the world would all go wrong ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "With one too many daisies.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "\"Look bravely up into the sky, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And be content with knowing ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "That God wished for a buttercup ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Just here, where you are growing.\" ", "") ?>
PoemAttribution("85", SmallCapsText("—Sarah Orne Jewett.")) ?>
PoemEnd() ?>