StoryTitle("caps", "Hunting Song") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PagePoem(51, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Waken, lords and ladies gay,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "On the mountain dawns the day, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "All the jolly chase is here,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "With hawk, and horse, and hunting spear!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Hounds are in their couples yelling, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Hawks are whistling, horns are knelling, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Merrily, merrily, mingle they,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2DQ", "", "\"Waken, lords and ladies gay.\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Waken, lords and ladies gay,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The mist has left the mountain gray, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Springlets in the dawn are steaming, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Diamonds on the brake are gleaming; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And foresters have busy been,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To track the buck in thicket green; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Now we come to chant our lay, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2DQ", "", "\"Waken, lords and ladies gay.\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Waken, lords and ladies gay, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To the greensward haste away; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "We can show you where he lies, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Fleet of foot and tall of size;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "We can show the marks he made, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "When 'gainst the oak his antlers fray'd;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "You shall see him brought to bay, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2DQ", "", "\"Waken, lords and ladies gay.\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Louder, louder chant the lay, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Waken, lords and ladies gay! ", "") ?>
PagePoem(52, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Tell them youth, and mirth, and glee ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Run a course as well as we;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Time, stern huntsman! who can balk, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Stanch as hound, and fleet as hawk? ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Think of this, and rise with day, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Gentle lords and ladies gay.", "") ?>
PoemAttribution("85", SmallCapsText("—Sir Walter Scott.")) ?>
PoemEnd() ?>