StoryTitle("caps", "Out in the Cold") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PagePoem(13, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Out in the cold,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "With a thin-worn fold ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Of withered gold ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Around her rolled, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Hangs in the air the weary moon. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "She is old, old, old;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And her bones all cold, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And her tales all told,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And her things all sold, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "She has no breath to croon.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Like a castaway,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "She is quite shut out! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "She might call and shout ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "But no one about", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Would ever call back, \"Who's there!\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "There is never a hut", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Not a door to shut, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Not a footpath or rut ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Long road or short cut, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Leading to anywhere!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "She is all alone", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Like a dog-picked bone, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "The poor old crone ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "She fain would groan, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But she cannot find the breath.", "") ?>
PagePoem(14, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "She once had a fire;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "But she built it no higher, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And only sat nigher", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Till she saw it expire;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And now she is cold as death.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "She never will smile ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "All the lonesome while. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Oh, the mile after mile, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And never a stile!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And never a tree or a stone! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "She has not a tear:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Afar and anear ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "It is all so drear, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "But she does not care,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Her heart is as dry as a bone.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "None to come near her! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "No one to cheer her! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "No one to jeer her!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "No one to hear her!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Not a thing to lift and hold!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "She is always awake", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "But her heart will not break: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "She can only quake,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Shiver, and shake:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The old woman is very cold.", "") ?>
PoemAttribution("85", SmallCapsText("—George MacDonald.")) ?>
PoemEnd() ?>