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StoryTitle("caps", "Golden-Rod ") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PagePoem(47, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Spring is the morning of the year, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And summer is the noontide bright; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The autumn is the evening clear", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "That comes before the winter's night. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And in the evening, everywhere", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Along the roadside, up and down, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I see the golden torches flare", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Like lighted street lamps in the town. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I think the butterfly and bee,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "From distant meadows coming back, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Are quite contented when they see", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "These lamps along the homeward track. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But those who stay too late get lost;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "For when the darkness falls about, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Down every lighted street the Frost ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Will go and put the torches out!", "") ?>
PoemAttribution("85", SmallCapsText("—Frank Dempster Sherman.")) ?>
PoemEnd() ?>