StoryTitle("caps", "Queen Mab") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PagePoem(44, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "A little fairy comes at night,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Her eyes are blue, her hair is brown, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "With silver spots upon her wings,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And from the moon she flutters down. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "She has a little silver wand,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And when a good child goes to bed ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "She waves her wand from right to left, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And makes a circle round its head. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And then it dreams of pleasant things, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Of fountains filled with fairy fish, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And trees that bear delicious fruit, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And bow their branches at a wish ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Of arbors filled with dainty scents ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "From lovely flowers that never fade; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Bright flies that glitter in the sun,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And glow-worms shining in the shade, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And talking birds with gifted tongues, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "For singing songs and telling tales, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And pretty dwarfs to show the way ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Through fairy hills and fairy dales. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But when a bad child goes to bed,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "From left to right she weaves her rings, ", "") ?>
PagePoem(45, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And then it dreams all through the night ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Of only ugly horrid things!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Then lions come with glaring eyes, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And tigers growl, a dreadful noise, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And ogres draw their cruel knives,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "To shed the blood of girls and boys. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Then stormy waves rush on to drown,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Or raging flames come scorching round; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Fierce dragons hover in the air,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And serpents crawl along the ground. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Then wicked children wake and weep, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And wish the long black gloom away; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But good ones love the dark, and find ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "The night as pleasant as the day.", "") ?>
PoemAttribution("85", SmallCapsText("—Thomas Hood.")) ?>
PoemEnd() ?>