StoryTitle("caps", "A Friend in the Garden ") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PagePoem(26, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "He is not John the gardener,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And yet the whole day long ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Employs himself most usefully, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "The flower beds among.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "He is not Tom the pussy-cat, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And yet the other day,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "With stealthy stride and glistening eye, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "He crept upon his prey.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "He is not Dash the dear old dog, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And yet, perhaps, if you", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Took pains with him and petted him, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "You 'd come to love him too.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "He 's not a Blackbird, though he chirps, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And though he once was black;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And now he wears a loose, gray coat, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "All wrinkled on the back.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "He 's got a very dirty face, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And very shining eyes;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "He sometimes comes and sits indoors; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "He looks—and p'r'aps is—wise. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But in a sunny flower bed", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "He has his fixed abode;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "He eats the things that eat my plants—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "He is a friendly ", SmallCapsText("toad.")) ?>
PoemAttribution("85", SmallCapsText("—Juliana Horatia Ewing.")) ?>
PoemEnd() ?>