StoryTitle("caps", "The Fairy Shoemaker") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Little cowboy, what have you heard ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Up on the lonely rath's green mound! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Only the plaintive yellow bird ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Sighing in sultry fields around, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Chary, chary, chary, chee-ee?", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Only the grasshopper, and the bee? ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "\"Tip-tap, rip-rap, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Tick-a-tack-too!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Scarlet leather sewn together, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "This will make a shoe,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Left, right, pull it tight; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Summer days are warm; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Underground in winter, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Laughing at the storm!\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Lay your ear close to the hill.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Do you not catch the tiny clamor, ", "") ?>
PagePoem(101, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Busy click of an elfin hammer, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Voice of the Lepracaun singing shrill ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "As he merrily plies his trade?", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "He's a span", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "And a quarter in height.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Get him in sight, hold him tight, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "And your're a made Man!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "You watch your cattle the summer day, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Sup on potatoes, sleep in the hay:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "How would you like to roll in your carriage, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Look for a duchess's daughter in marriage? ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Seize the Shoemaker—then you may:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "\"Big boots a-hunting, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Sandals in the hall, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "White for a wedding feast, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Pink for a ball.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "This way, that way, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "So we make a shoe; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Getting rich every stitch, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Tick-tack-too!\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Nine and ninety treasure crocks ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "This keen miser-fairy hath,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Hid in mountains, woods and rocks, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Ruin and round tower, cave and rath, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And where the cormorants build", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "From times of old ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Guarded by him ", "") ?>
PagePoem(102, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Each of them filled ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Full to the brim with gold!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I caught him at work one day myself,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "In the castle ditch, where foxglove grows; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "A wrinkled, wizened, and bearded elf, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Spectacles stuck on his pointed nose, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Silver buckles to his hose,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Leather apron, shoe in his lap. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "\"Rip-rap, tip-tap, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Tick-tack-too!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "(A grasshopper on my cap! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Away the moth flew!) ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Buskins for a fairy prince, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Brogues for his son;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Pay me well, pay me well, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "When the job is done!\" ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The rogue was mine, beyond a doubt; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I stared at him, he stared at me ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "\"Servant, sir!\" \"Humph!\" says he, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And pulled a snuff-box out.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "He took a long pinch, looked better pleased, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The queer little Lepracaun ;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Offered the box with a dainty grace—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Pouf! he flung the dust in my face! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "And while I sneezed,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L6", "", "Was gone!", "") ?>
PoemAttribution("85", SmallCapsText("—William Allingham.")) ?>
PoemEnd() ?>