StoryTitle("caps", "Chanticleer") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PagePoem(21, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Of all the birds from East to West ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "That tuneful are and dear,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I love that farmyard bird the best, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "They call him Chanticleer.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Gold plume and copper plume, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Comb of scarlet gay;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "'Tis he that scatters night and gloom, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And whistles back the day!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "He is the sun's brave herald ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "That, ringing his blithe horn, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Calls round a world dew-pearled ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "The heavenly airs of morn.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "O clear gold, shrill and bold!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "He calls through creeping mist", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The mountains from the night and cold ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "To rose and amethyst.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "He sets the birds to singing, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And calls the flowers to rise; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The morning cometh, bringing ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Sweet sleep to heavy eyes.", "") ?>
PagePoem(22, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Gold plume and silver plume, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Comb of coral gay;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "'Tis he packs off the night and gloom, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And summons home the day! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Black fear he sends it flying, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Black care he drives afar; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And creeping shadows sighing ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Before the morning star.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The birds of all the forest", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Have dear and pleasant cheer, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But yet I hold the rarest", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "The farmyard Chanticleer.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Red cock or black cock, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Gold plume or white, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The flower of all the feathered flock, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "He whistles back the light!", "") ?>
PoemAttribution("85", SmallCapsText("—Katharine Tynan Hinkson.")) ?>
PoemEnd() ?>