StoryTitle("caps", "The Four Princesses ") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PagePoem(89, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Four Princesses lived in a Green Tower—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "A bright green tower in the middle of the sea; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And no one could think—oh, no one could think—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Who the Four Princesses could be.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "One looked to the North, and one to the South, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And one to the East, and one to the West; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "They were all so pretty, so very pretty,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "You could not tell which was the prettiest. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Their curls were golden—their eyes were blue, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And their voices were sweet as a silvery bell; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And four white birds around them flew,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "But where they came from—who could tell? ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Ah, who could tell? for no one knew,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And not a word could you hear them say.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But the sound of their singing, like church bells ringing, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Would sweetly float as they passed away.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "For under the sun, and under the stars, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "They often sailed on the distant sea; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "There, in their Green Tower and Roses Bower—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "They lived again—a mystery.", "") ?>
PoemAttribution("85", SmallCapsText("—Kate Greenaway.")) ?>
PoemEnd() ?>
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