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StoryTitle("caps", "The Wind and the Moon") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PagePoem(61, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Said the Wind to the Moon, \"I will blow you out. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "You stare", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "In the air", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Like a ghost in a chair, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Always looking what I am about—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I hate to be watched; I'll blow you out.\" ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The Wind blew hard, and out went the Moon. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "So, deep", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "On a heap", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Of clouds to sleep,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Down lay the Wind, and slumbered soon, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Muttering low, \"I've done for that Moon.\" ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "He turned in his bed; she was there again! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "On high", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "In the sky,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "With her one ghost eye,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The Moon shone white and alive and plain. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Said the Wind, \"I will blow you out again.\" ", "") ?>
PagePoem(62, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The Wind blew hard, and the Moon grew dim. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "\"With my sledge", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "And my wedge,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "I have knocked off her edge! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "If only I blow right fierce and grim, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The creature will soon be dimmer than dim.\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "He blew and he blew, and she thinned to a thread. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "\"One puff", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "More 's enough", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "To blow her to snuff !", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "One good puff more where the last was bred, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And glimmer, glimmer, glum will go the thread.\" ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "He blew a great blast, and the thread was gone. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "In the air", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Nowhere", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Was a moonbeam bare;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Far off and harmless the shy stars shone—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Sure and certain the Moon was gone !", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The Wind he took to his revels once more; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "On down", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "In town,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Like a merry-mad clown,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "He leaped and hallooed with whistle and roar—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "\"What's that?\" The glimmering thread once more! ", "") ?>
PagePoem(63, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "He flew in a rage—he danced and blew; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "But in vain", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Was the pain", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Of his bursting brain;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "For still the broader the Moon-scrap grew,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The broader he swelled his big cheeks and blew. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Slowly she grew—till she filled the night,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "And shone", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "On her throne ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "In the sky alone, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "A matchless, wonderful silvery light, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Radiant and lovely, the Queen of the Night. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Said the Wind: \"What a marvel of power am I!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "With my breath, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Good faith!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "I blew her to death—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "First blew her away right out of the sky—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Then blew her in; what strength have I!\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But the Moon she knew nothing about the affair; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "For, high", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "In the sky,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "With her one white eye, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Motionless, miles above the air, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "She had never heard the great Wind blare.", "") ?>
PoemAttribution("85", SmallCapsText("—George Macdonald.")) ?>
PoemEnd() ?>