StoryTitle("caps", "The Owlet") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PagePoem(7, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "When dusk is drowned in drowsy dreams,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And slow the hues of sunset die;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "When firefly and moth go by,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And in still streams the new moon seems", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Another moon and sky:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Then from the hills there comes a cry,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "The owlet's cry:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "A shivering voice that sobs and screams,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "With terror screams:—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"Who is it, who is it, who-o-o?", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Who rides through the dusk and dew,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "With a pair of horns,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "As thin as thorns,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And face a bubble-blue?—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Who, who, who!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Who is it, who is it, who-o-o?\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "When night has dulled the lily's white,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And opened the moonflower's eyes;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "When pale mists rise and veil the skies,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And round the height in whispering flight", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "The night-wind sounds and sighs:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Then in the wood again it cries,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "The owlet cries:", "") ?>
PagePoem(8, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "A shivering voice that calls in fright, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "In maundering fright:—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"Who is it, who is it, who-o-o? ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Who walks with a shuffling shoe ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "'Mid the gusty trees,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "With a face none sees,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And a form as ghostly, too?—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Who, who, who!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Who is it, who is it, who-o-o?\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "When midnight leans a listening ear ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And tinkles on her insect lutes;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "When 'mid the roots the cricket flutes, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And marsh and mere, now far, now near, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "A jack o'lantern foots:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Then o'er the pool again it hoots: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "The owlet hoots:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "A voice that shivers as with fear, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "That cries with fear:—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"Who is it, who is it, who-o-o?", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Who creeps with his glow-worm crew ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Above the mire", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "With a corpse-like fire,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "As only dead men do?—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Who, who, who!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Who is it, who is it, who-o-o?\"", "") ?>
PoemAttribution("85", SmallCapsText("—Madison Cawein.")) ?>
PoemEnd() ?>