StoryTitle("caps", "Mine Host of \"The Golden Apple\" ") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "A goodly host one day was mine,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "A Golden Apple his only sign,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "That hung from a long branch, ripe and fine. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "My host was the bountiful apple tree;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "He gave me shelter and nourished me ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "With the best of fare, all fresh and free. ", "") ?>
PagePoem(78, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And light-winged guests came not a few, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To his leafy inn, and sipped the dew, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And sang their best songs ere they flew. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I slept at night, on a downy bed", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Of moss, and my Host benignly spread ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "His own cool shadow over my head. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "When I asked what reckoning there might be, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "He shook his broad boughs cheerily:—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "A blessing be thine, green Apple tree!", "") ?>
PoemAttribution("85", SmallCapsText("—Thomas Westwood.")) ?>
PoemEnd() ?>