StoryTitle("caps", "The Green Gnome") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PagePoem(17, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Ring, sing! ring, sing! pleasant Sabbath bells!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Chime, rime! chime, rime! through dales and dells! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Rime, ring! chime, sing! pleasant Sabbath bells!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Chime, sing! rime, ring! over fields and fells!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And I galloped and I galloped on my palfrey white as milk,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "My robe was of the sea-green woof, my serk was of silk; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "My hair was golden yellow, and it floated to my shoe, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "My eyes were like two harebells bathed in little drops of dew;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "My palfrey, never stopping, made a music sweetly blent ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "With the leaves of autumn dropping all around me as I went;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And I heard the bells, grown fainter, far behind me peal and play,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Fainter, fainter, fainter, till they seemed to die away; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And beside a silver runnel, on a little heap of sand,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I saw the green gnome sitting, with his cheek upon his hand.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Then he started up to see me, and he ran with cry and bound,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And drew me from my palfrey white and set me on the ground.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Oh crimson, crimson were his locks, his face was green to see,", "") ?>
PagePoem(18, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But he cried, \"O light-haired lassie; you are bound to marry me!\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "He clasped me round the middle small, he kissed, me on the cheek,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "He kissed me once, he kissed me twice—I could not stir or speak.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "He kissed me twice, he kissed me thrice—but when he kissed again,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I called aloud upon the name of Him who died for men.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Sing, sing! ring, ring! pleasant Sabbath bells!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Chime, rime! chime, rime! through dales and dells! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Rime, ring! chime, sing! pleasant Sabbath bells! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Chime, sing! rime, ring! over fields and fells!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Oh faintly, faintly, faintly, calling men and maids to pray,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "So faintly, faintly, faintly rang the bells far away; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And as I named the Blessed Name, as in our need we can,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The ugly green green gnome became a tall and comely man;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "His hands were white, his beard was gold, his eyes were black as sloes,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "His tunic was of scarlet woof, and silken were his hose;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "A pensive light from Faëryland still lingered on his cheek,", "") ?>
PagePoem(19, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "His voice was like the running brook, when he began to speak:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"Oh, you have cast away the charm my stepdame put on me,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Seven years I dwelt in Faëryland, and you have set me free.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Oh, I will mount thy palfrey white, and ride to kirk with thee,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And, by those little dewy eyes, we twain will wedded be!\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Back we galloped, never stopping, he before and I behind,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And the autumn leaves were dropping, red and yellow, in the wind;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And the sun was shining clearer, and my heart was high and proud,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "As nearer, nearer, nearer, rang the kirk bells sweet and loud,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And we saw the kirk before us, as we trotted down the fells,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And nearer, clearer, o'er us, rang the welcome of the bells.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Ring, sing! ring, sing! pleasant Sabbath bells! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Chime, rime! chime, rime! through dales and dells! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Rime, ring! chime, sing! pleasant Sabbath bells! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Chime, sing! rime, ring! over fields and fells!", "") ?>
PoemAttribution("85", SmallCapsText("—Robert Buchanan.")) ?>
PoemEnd() ?>