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StoryTitle("caps", "A Sad Little Lass ") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PagePoem(64, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "\"Why sit you here, my lass?\" said he. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "\"I came to see the king,\" said she,—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "\"To see the king come riding by, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "While all the eager people cry, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "'God bless the king, and long live he!' ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And therefore sit I here,\" said she. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "\"Why do you weep, my lass?\" said he. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "\"Because that I am sad,\" said she.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "\"For when the king came riding by, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And all the people raised a cry,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I was so small I could not see; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And therefore do I weep,\" said she. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "\"Then weep no more, my lass,\" said he. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "\"And pray, good sir, why not?\" said she. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "\"Lift up your eyes of bonnie blue,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And look and look me through and through; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Nor say the king you could not see.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I am the king, my lass,\" said he. ", "") ?>
PoemAttribution("85", SmallCapsText("—Margaret Johnson.")) ?>
PoemEnd() ?>