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"2", "2", "[Illustration]", SmallCapsText( "He smiles to see the eyelids close, Above the happy eyes.")) ?>
StoryTitle("caps", "The Sandman") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PagePoem(32, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The rosy clouds float overhead, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "The sun is going down;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And now the sandman's gentle tread, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Comes stealing through the town. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "\"White sand, white sand, sand,\" he softly cries, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And, as he shakes his hand,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Straightway there lies in babies' eyes ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "His gift of shining sand.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Blue eyes, gray eyes, black eyes and brown,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "As shuts the rose, they softly close, when he goes through the town.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "From shiny beaches far away—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Yes, in another land—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "He gathers up at break of day ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "His store of shining sand.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "No tempests beat that shore remote, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "No ships may sail away;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "His little boat alone may float ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Within that lovely bay.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Blue eyes, gray eyes, black eyes and brown,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "As shuts the rose, they softly close, when he goes through the town.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "He smiles to see the eyelids close ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Above the happy eyes,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And every child right well he knows. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Oh! he is very wise!", "") ?>
PagePoem(33, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But if, as he goes through the land, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "A naughty baby cries,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "His other hand takes dull gray sand ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "To close the wakeful eyes.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Blue eyes, gray eyes, black eyes and brown,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "As shuts the rose, they softly close, when he goes through the town.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "So when you hear the sandman's song ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Sound through the twilight sweet, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Be sure you do not keep him long ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Awaiting on the street.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Lie softly down, dear little head; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Rest quiet, busy hands,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Till by your bed, his good night said, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "He strews the shining sands.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Blue eyes, gray eyes, black eyes and brown,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "As shuts the rose, they softly close, when he goes through the town.", "") ?>
PoemAttribution("85", SmallCapsText("—Margaret Vandegrift.")) ?>
PoemEnd() ?>
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