StoryTitle("caps", "The Dumb Soldier ") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PagePoem(79, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "When the grass was closely mown, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Walking on the lawn alone,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "In the turf a hole I found,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And hid a soldier underground. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Spring and daisies come apace; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Grasses hide my hiding place; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Grasses run like a green sea ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "O'er the lawn up to my knee. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Under grass alone he lies, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Looking up with leaden eyes, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Scarlet coat and pointed gun, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To the stars and to the sun. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "When the grass is ripe like grain, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "When the scythe is stoned again, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "When the lawn is shaven clear, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Then my hole shall reappear.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I shall find him, never fear, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I shall find my grenadier; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But for all that 's gone and come, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I shall find my soldier dumb.", "") ?>
PagePoem(80, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "He has lived, a little thing,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "In the grassy woods of spring; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Done, if he could tell me true, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Just as I should like to do. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "He has seen the starry hours ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And the springing of the flowers; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And the fairy things that pass ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "In the forests of the grass.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "In the silence he has heard ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Talking bee and ladybird, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And the butterfly has flown ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "O'er him as he lay alone. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Not a word will he disclose, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Not a word of all he knows. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I must lay him on the shelf, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And make up the tale myself. ", "") ?>
PoemAttribution("85", SmallCapsText("—Robert Louis Stevenson.")) ?>
PoemEnd() ?>
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