StoryTitle("caps", "Little Sorrow ") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PagePoem(87, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Among the thistles on the hill, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "In tears, sat little Sorrow;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "\"I see a black cloud in the west, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "'T will bring a storm to-morrow. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And when it storms, where shall I be? ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And what will keep the rain from me? ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Woe's me!\" said little Sorrow.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "\"But now the air is soft and sweet, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "The sun is bright,\" said Pleasure; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "\"Here is my pipe,—if you will dance, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "I'll wake my merriest measure;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Or, if you choose, we'll sit beneath", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "The red rose tree, and twine a wreath; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Come, come with me!\" said Pleasure. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "\"O, I want neither dance nor flowers,—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "They 're not for me,\" said Sorrow, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "\"When that black cloud is in the west, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And it will storm to-morrow!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And if it storm what shall I do?", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "I have no heart to play with you,—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Go! go!\" said little Sorrow.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But lo! when came the morrow's morn, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "The clouds were all blown over; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The lark sprang singing from his nest ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Among the dewy clover;", "") ?>
PagePoem(88, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And Pleasure called, \"Come out and dance! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "To-day you mourn no evil chance;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The clouds have all blown over!\" ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "\"And if they have, alas! alas!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Poor comfort that!\" said Sorrow; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "\"For if to-day we miss the storm, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "'T will surely come to-morrow,—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And be the fiercer for delay", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "I am too sore at heart to play; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Woe's me!\" said little Sorrow.", "") ?>
PoemAttribution("85", SmallCapsText("—Marian Douglas.")) ?>
PoemEnd() ?>