StoryTitle("caps", "Prince Tatters") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PagePoem(24, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Little Prince Tatters has lost his cap! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Over the hedge he threw it;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Into the water it fell with a clap—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Stupid old thing to do it!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Now Mother may sigh and Nurse may fume ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "For the gay little cap with its eagle plume. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "\"One cannot be thinking all day of such matters! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Trifles are trifles!\" says little Prince Tatters. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Little Prince Tatters has lost his coat!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Playing he did not need it;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "\"Left it right there, by the nanny-goat, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And nobody ever see'd it!\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Now Mother and Nurse may search till night ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "For the new little coat with its buttons bright; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But, \"Coat-sleeves or shirt-sleeves, how little it matters!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Trifles are trifles,\" says little Prince Tatters. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Little Prince Tatters has LOST HIS BALL! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Rolled away down the street!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Somebody'll have to find it, that 's all, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Before he can sleep or eat.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Now raise the neighborhood, quickly, do ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And send for the crier and constable too! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "\"Trifles are trifles; but serious matters", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "They must be seen to,\" says little Prince Tatters. ", "") ?>
PoemAttribution("85", SmallCapsText("—Laura E. Richards.")) ?>
PoemEnd() ?>
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