StoryTitle("caps", "Scythe Song") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PagePoem(16, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Mowers, weary and brown and blithe, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "What is the word methinks ye know, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Endless over-word that the Scythe ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Sings to the blades of grass below? ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Scythes that swing in the grass and clover, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Something still they say as they pass; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "What is the word that, over and over,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Sings the Scythe to the flowers and grass? ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Hush, ah hush, the Scythes are saying, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Hush, and heed not, and fall asleep;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Hush, they say to the grasses swaying, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Hush, they sing to the clover deep! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Hush—'tis the lullaby Time is singing—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Hush, and heed not, for all things pass.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Hush, ah hush! and the Scythes are swinging ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Over the clover, over the grass!", "") ?>
PoemAttribution("85", SmallCapsText("—Andrew Lang.")) ?>
PoemEnd() ?>