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StoryTitle("caps", "Robert of Lincoln") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Merrily swinging on brier and weed, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Near to the nest of his little dame, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Over the mountain-side or mead, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Robert of Lincoln is telling his name: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2DQ", "", "\"Bob-o'-link, bob-o'-link, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Spink, spank, spink;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Snug and safe is that nest of ours, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Hidden among the summer flowers, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Chee, chee, chee!\"", "") ?>
PagePoem(11, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Robert of Lincoln is gayly drest, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Wearing a bright black wedding coat; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "White are his shoulders and white his crest. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Hear him call in his merry note:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2DQ", "", "\"Bob-o'-link, bob-o'-link, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Spink, spank, spink;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Look, what a nice new coat is mine, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Sure there was never a bird so fine. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Chee, chee, chee!\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Robert of Lincoln's Quaker wife,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Pretty and quiet, with plain brown wings,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Passing at home a patient life,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Broods in the grass while her husband sings:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2DQ", "", "\"Bob-o'-link, bob-o'-link,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Spink, spank, spink;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Brood, kind creature; you need not fear ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Thieves and robbers while I am here. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Chee, chee, chee!\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Modest and shy as a nun is she; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "One weak chirp is her only note, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Braggart and prince of braggart is he, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Pouring boasts from his little throat:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2DQ", "", "\"Bob-o'-link, bob-o'-link, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Spink, spank, spink; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Never was I afraid of man; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Catch me, cowardly knaves, if you can! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Chee, chee, chee!\"", "") ?>
PagePoem(12, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Six white eggs on a bed of hay, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Flecked with purple, a pretty sight! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "There, as the mother sits all day, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Robert is singing with all his might", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2DQ", "", "\"Bob-o'-link, bob-o'-link, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Spink, spank, spink;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Nice good wife that never goes out, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Keeping house while I frolic about. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Chee, chee, chee!\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Soon as the little ones chip the shell, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Six wide mouths are open for food; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Robert of Lincoln bestirs him well, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Gathering seeds for the hungry brood. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2DQ", "", "\"Bob-o'-link, bob-o'-link, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Spink, spank, spink; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Nobody knows but my mate and I ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Where our nest and our nestlings lie. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Chee, chee, chee!\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Summer wanes; the children are grown; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Fun and frolic no more he knows; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Robert of Lincoln's a humdrum crone; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Off he flies, and we sing as he goes:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2DQ", "", "\"Bob-o'-link, bob-o'-link, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Spink, spank, spink;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "When you can pipe that merry old strain, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Robert of Lincoln, come back again. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Chee, chee, chee!\"", "") ?>
PoemAttribution("85", SmallCapsText("—William Cullen Bryant.")) ?>
PoemEnd() ?>