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StoryTitle("caps", "A Sea Song from the Shore ") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PagePoem(1, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Hail! Ho!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Sail! Ho!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Ahoy! Ahoy! Ahoy! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Who calls to me,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "So far at sea? ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Only a little boy! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Sail! Ho! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Hail! Ho!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The sailor he sails the sea: ", "") ?>
PagePoem(2, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "I wish he would capture ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "A little sea-horse", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And send him home to me. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "I wish, as he sails ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Through the tropical gales,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "He would catch me a sea-bird, too, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "With its silver wings", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And the song it sings,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And its breast of down and dew! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "I wish he would catch me a ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Little mermaid,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Some island where he lands, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "With her dripping curls, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And her crown of pearls, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And the looking-glass in her hands! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Hail! Ho!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Sail! Ho!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Sail far o'er the fabulous main! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And if I were a sailor,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "I'd sail with you,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Though I never sailed back again.", "") ?>
PoemAttribution("85", SmallCapsText("—James Whitcomb Riley.")) ?>
PoemEnd() ?>
Footnote("From Poems Here at Home, by James Whitcomb Riley, Copyright, 1893. Used by special permission of the publishers, The Bobbs-Merrill Company.") ?>