StoryTitle("caps", "Song of the Elf") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "When the poppies with their shield, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Sentinel", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Forest and the harvest fields, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "In the hill", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Of a blossom, fair to see ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "There I stall the humble bee, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "My good stud; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "There I stable him and hold, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Harness him with fairy gold,", "") ?>
PagePoem(32, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "There I ease his burly back ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Of the honey and its sack ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Gathered from each bud.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Where the glowworm lights its lamp ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "There I lie;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Where, above the grasses damp, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Moths go by;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Now within the fussy brook, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Where the waters wind and crook ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Round the rocks,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I go sailing down the gloom ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Straddling on a wisp of broom, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Or, beneath the owlet moon, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Trip it to the cricket's tune ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Tossing back my locks.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Ere the crowfoot on the lawn lifts its head, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Or the glowworm's light be gone", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Dim and dead, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "In a cobweb hammock deep ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Twixt two ferns I swing and sleep ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Hid away;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Where the drowsy musk-rose blows ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And a dreamy runnel flows", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "In the land of Faery,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Where no mortal thing can see ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "All the elfin day.", "") ?>
PoemAttribution("85", SmallCapsText("—Madison Cawein.")) ?>
PoemEnd() ?>