StoryTitle("caps", "Dirge on the Death of Oberon, the Fairy King") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Toll the lilies' silver bells! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Oberon, the King, is dead! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "In her grief the crimson rose ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "All her velvet leaves has shed.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Toll the lilies' silver bells! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Oberon is dead and gone ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "He who looked an emperor ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "When his glow-worm crown was on.", "") ?>
PagePoem(38, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Toll the lilies' silver bells!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Slay the dragonfly, his steed; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Dig his grave within the ring", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Of the mushrooms in the mead.", "") ?>
PoemAttribution("85", SmallCapsText("—G. W. Thornbury.")) ?>
PoemEnd() ?>