StoryTitle("caps", "How The Leaves Came Down ") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I'll tell you how the leaves came down. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The great Tree to his children said", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "\"You're getting sleepy, Yellow and Brown, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Yes, very sleepy, little Red;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "It is quite time you went to bed.\" ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "\"Ah,\" begged each silly, pouting leaf, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "\"Let us a little longer stay;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Dear Father Tree, behold our grief; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "'T is such a very pleasant day, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "We do not want to go away.\"", "") ?>
PagePoem(30, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "So just for one more merry day", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To the great Tree the leaflets clung, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Frolicked and danced, and had their way, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Upon the autumn breezes swung, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Whispering, all their sports among: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "\"Perhaps, the great Tree will forget, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And let us stay until the spring,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "If we all beg, and coax, and fret.\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But the great Tree did no such thing; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "He smiled to hear them whispering. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "\"Come, children, all to bed!\" he cried;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And ere the leaves could urge their prayer, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "He shook his head, and far and wide, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Fluttering and rustling everywhere,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Down sped the leaflets through the air. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I saw them; on the ground they lay, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Golden and red, a huddled swarm, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Waiting till one from far away,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "White bedclothes heaped upon her arm, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Should come to wrap them safe and warm. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The great bare Tree looked down, and smiled. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "\"Good-night, dear little leaves,\" he said. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And from below each sleepy child", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Replied, \"Good-night,\" and murmured, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "\"It is so nice to go to bed!\"", "") ?>
PoemAttribution("85", SmallCapsText("—Susan Coolidge.")) ?>
PoemEnd() ?>