StoryTitle("caps", "The Dustman") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PagePoem(54, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"Dustman, dustman!\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Through the deserted square he cries, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And babies put their rosy fists", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Into their eyes.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "There's nothing out of No-man's-land ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "So drowsy since the world began,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "As, \"Dustman, dustman, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Dustman.\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "He goes his village round at dusk ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "From door to door, from day to day; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And when the children hear his step ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "They stop their play.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"Dustman, dustman!\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Far up the street he is descried, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And soberly the twilight games ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Are laid aside.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"Dustman, dustman!\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "There, Drowsyhead, the old refrain, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"Dustman, dustman!\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "It goes again.", "") ?>
PagePoem(55, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"Dustman, dustman! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"Hurry by and let me sleep. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "When most I wish for you to come, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "You always creep.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"Dustman, dustman!\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And when I want to play some more, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "You never then are farther off", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Than the next door.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"Dustman, dustman!\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "He beckles down the echoing curb, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "A step that neither hopes nor hates ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Ever disturb.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"Dustman, dustman!\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "He never varies from one pace, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And the monotony of time", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Is in his face.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And some day, with more potent dust, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Brought from his home beyond the deep, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And gently scattered on our eyes,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "We, too, shall sleep,—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Hearing the call we know so well ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Fade swiftly out as it began, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"Dustman, dustman,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Dustman!\"", "") ?>
PoemAttribution("85", SmallCapsText("—Bliss Carman.")) ?>
PoemEnd() ?>