StoryTitle("caps", "The Watchman's Song ") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PagePoem(129, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Listen, children, hear me tell,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Ten now tolls from the old church bell. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Once were given commandments ten, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To be always kept by men.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Naught avails that men should ward us,—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "One will watch and One will guard us, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "May He, of His boundless night,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Give unto us all \"good night.\" ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Listen, children, hear me tell,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Eleven now tolls from the old church bell. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Eleven Apostles went there forth, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Preaching truth through all the earth. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Listen, children, hear me tell,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Twelve now tolls from the old church bell. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Twelve hours day, and twelve hours night, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Time to order all things right.", "") ?>
PagePoem(130, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Listen, children, hear me tell,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "One now tolls from the old church bell. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "One hath made the world, and He ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Orders all things righteously.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Listen, children, hear me tell,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Two now strikes on the old church bell. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Two ways lie in each man's sight,—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "May you, children, choose the right. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Listen, children, hear me tell,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Three now strikes on the old church bell. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Three times think when you're in doubt, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Ere you set your task about.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Listen, children, hear me tell,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Four now strikes on the old church bell. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Four sides hath the plowed field,—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "May thy life, child, harvest yield. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Now the stars must fade away, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Quickly now will come the day ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Children, thank the bounteous Power ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "That doth guard you every hour.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Naught avails that man should ward you, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "One doth watch and One doth guard you; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "He hath, of His bounteous might,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Given unto you all \"good night.\" ", "") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>
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