StoryTitle("caps", "Remorse") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PagePoem(85, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I killed a robin. The little thing, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "With scarlet breast and glossy wing, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "That comes on the apple tree to sing. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I flung a stone as he twittered there, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I only meant to give him a scare,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But off it went—and hit him square. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "A little flutter—a little cry—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Then on the ground I saw him lie, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I did n't think he was going to die. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But as I watched him I soon could see ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "He never would sing for you or me ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Any more in the apple tree.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Never more in the morning light, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Never more in the sunshine bright, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Trilling his song in gay delight.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And I'm thinking every summer day, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "How never, never can I repay", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The little life I took away.", "") ?>
PoemAttribution("85", SmallCapsText("—Sydney Dayre.")) ?>
PoemEnd() ?>