StoryTitle("caps", "A Canadian Folk-Song") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PagePoem(9, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The doors are shut, the windows fast,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Outside the gust is driving past,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Outside the shivering ivy clings,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "While on the hob the kettle sings.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Margery, Margery, make the tea,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Singeth the kettle merrily.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The streams are hushed up where they flowed, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The ponds are frozen along the road,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The cattle are housed in shed and byre, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "While singeth the kettle on the fire. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Margery, Margery, make the tea, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Singeth the kettle merrily.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The fisherman on the bay in his boat ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Shivers and buttons up his coat;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The traveler stops at the tavern door,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And the kettle answers the chimney's roar. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Margery, Margery, make the tea, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Singeth the kettle merrily.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The firelight dances upon the wall, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Footsteps are heard in the outer hall, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And a kiss and a welcome that fill the room, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And the kettle sings in the glimmer and gloom. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Margery, Margery, make the tea,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Singeth the kettle merrily.", "") ?>
PoemAttribution("85", SmallCapsText("—William Wilfred Campbell.")) ?>
PoemEnd() ?>