StoryTitle("caps", "The Merman ") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PagePoem(124, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Who would be", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "A merman bold, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Sitting alone, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Singing alone ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Under the sea, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "With a crown of gold, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "On a throne?", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "I would be a merman bold;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I would sit and sing the whole of the day;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I would fill the sea-halls with a voice of power; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But at night I would roam abroad and play ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "With the mermaids in and out of the rocks, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Dressing their hair with the white sea-flower; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And then we would wander away, away", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To the pale-green sea-groves straight and high, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Chasing each other merrily. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Who would be", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "A mermaid fair, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Singing alone, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Combing her hair ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Under the sea, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "In a golden curl, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "With a comb of pearl, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "On a throne?", "") ?>
PagePoem(125, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "I would be a mermaid fair,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I would sing to myself the whole of the day; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "With a comb of pearl I would comb my hair.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I would comb my hair till my ringlets would fall ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Low adown, low adown,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "From under my starry sea-bud crown ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And I should look like a fountain of gold ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Springing alone,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "With a shrill inner sound, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Over the throne.", "") ?>
PoemAttribution("85", SmallCapsText("—Alfred Tennyson.")) ?>
PoemEnd() ?>
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