StoryTitle("caps", "The World's Music ") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PagePoem(27, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The world's a very happy place,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Where every child should dance and sing, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And always have a smiling face,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And never sulk for anything.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I waken when the morning's come, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And feel the air and light alive ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "With strange sweet music like the hum ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Of bees about their busy hive.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The linnets play among the leaves", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "At hide-and-seek, and chirp and sing; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "While, flashing to and from the eaves, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "The swallows twitter on the wing.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And twigs that shake, and boughs that sway; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And tall old trees you could not climb; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And winds that come, but cannot stay,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Are singing gayly all the time. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "From dawn to dark the old mill-wheel ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Makes music, going round and round; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And dusty-white with flour and meal, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "The miller whistles to its sound.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The brook that flows beside the mill, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "As happy as a brook can be,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Goes singing its own song until", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "It learns the singing of the sea. ", "") ?>
PagePoem(28, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "For every wave upon the sands ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Sings songs you never tire to hear, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Of laden ships from sunny lands ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Where it is summer all the year. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And if you listen to the rain", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "When leaves and birds and bees are dumb, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "You hear it pattering on the pane", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Like Andrew beating on his drum. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The coals beneath the kettle croon,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And clap their hands and dance in glee; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And even the kettle hums a tune", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "To tell you when it 's time for tea. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The world is such a happy place, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "That children, whether big or small, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Should always have a smiling face ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And never, never sulk at all.", "") ?>
PoemAttribution("85", SmallCapsText("—Gabriel Setoun.")) ?>
PoemEnd() ?>