StoryTitle("caps", "Snow in Town ") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PagePoem(58, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Nothing is quite so quiet and clean ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "As snow that falls in the night; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And is n't it jolly to jump from bed ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And find the whole world white? ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "It lies on the window ledges,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "It lies on the boughs of the trees,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "While sparrows crowd at the kitchen door, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "With a pitiful \"If you please?\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "It lies on the arm of the lamp-post, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Where the lighter's ladder goes, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And the policeman under it beats his arms, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And stamps—to feel his toes;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The butcher's boy is rolling a ball ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "To throw at the man with coals, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And old Mrs. Ingram has fastened a piece ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Of flannel under her soles;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "No sound there is in the snowy road ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "From the horses' cautious feet,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And all is hushed but the postman's knocks ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Rat-tatting down the street,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Till men come round with shovels ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "To clear the snow away,—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "What a pity it is that when it falls ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "They never let it stay!", "") ?>
PagePoem(59, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And while we are having breakfast ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Papa says, \"Isn't it light?", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And all because of the thousands of geese ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "The Old Woman plucked last night. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "\"And if you are good,\" he tells us, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "\"And attend to your A B C,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "You may go in the garden and make a snow man ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "As big or bigger than me.\"", "") ?>
PoemAttribution("85", SmallCapsText("—Rickman Mark.")) ?>
PoemEnd() ?>
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