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StoryTitle("caps", "The Quest ") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PagePoem(48, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "There once was a restless boy ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Who dwelt in a home by the sea, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Where the water danced for joy, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And the wind was glad and free ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But he said, \"Good mother, oh! let me go; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "For the dullest place in the world, I know, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Is this little brown house,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "This old brown house, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Under the apple tree.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "\"I will travel east and west; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The loveliest homes I 'll see; ", "") ?>
PagePoem(49, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And when I have found the best, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Dear mother, I'll come for thee.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I'll come for thee in a year and a day, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And joyfully then we'll haste away, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "From this little brown house,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "This old brown house, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Under the apple tree.\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "So he traveled here and there, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But never content was he, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Though he saw in lands most fair ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The costliest homes there be.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "He something missed from the sea or sky, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Till he turned again with a wistful sigh ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To the little brown house,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The old brown house, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Under the apple tree.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Then the mother saw and smiled, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "While her heart grew glad and free. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "\"Hast thou chosen a home, my child? ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Ah, where shall we dwell?\" quoth she. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And he said, \"Sweet mother, from east to west, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The loveliest home, and the dearest and best, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Is a little brown house,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "An old brown house, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Under an apple tree.\" ", "") ?>
PoemAttribution("85", SmallCapsText("—Eudora Bumstead.")) ?>
PoemEnd() ?>