StoryTitle("caps", "The Sing-Away Bird ") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Have you ever heard of the Sing-away bird, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "That sings where the Runaway River", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Runs down with its rills to the bald-headed hills ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "That stand in the sunshine and shiver?", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "\"Oh, sing! sing-away! sing-away!\" ", "") ?>
PagePoem(7, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "How the pines and the birches are stirred ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "By the trill of the Sing-away bird!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "'T was a white-throated sparrow, that sped a light arrow ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Of song from his musical quiver,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And it pierced with its spell every valley and dell ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "On the banks of the Runaway River.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "\"Oh, sing! sing-away! sing-away!\" ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "The song of the wild singer had", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "The sound of a soul that is glad.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And the bald-headed hills, with their rocks and their rills, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "To the tune of rapture are ringing;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And their faces grow young, all the gray mists among, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "While the forests break forth into singing!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "\"Oh, sing! sing-away! sing-away!\" ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And the river runs singing along;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And the flying winds catch up the song.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And, beneath the glad sun, every glad-hearted one ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Sets the world to the tune of his gladness:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The swift rivers sing it, the wild breezes wing it, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Till Earth loses thought of her sadness.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "\"Oh, sing! sing-away! sing-away!\" ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Oh, sing, happy soul, to joy's Giver, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Sing on, by Time's Runaway River!", "") ?>
PoemAttribution("85", SmallCapsText("—Lucy Larcom.")) ?>
PoemEnd() ?>