StoryTitle("caps", "The Haughty Aspen") ?>
SubTitle("mixed", "A German Legend") ?>
StoryOrigin("center", SmallCapsText("Nora Archibald Smith") ) ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PagePoem(79, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "As I went through the tangled wood", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", " I heard the Aspen shiver.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"What dost thou ail, sweet Aspen, say,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", " Why do thy leaflets quiver?\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\" 'Twas long ago,\" the Aspen sighed—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", " How long is past my knowing—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"When Mary Mother rode adown", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", " This wood where I was growing.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Blest Joseph journey'd by her side,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", " Upon his good staff resting,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And in her arms the Heav'nly Babe,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", " Dove of the World, was nesting.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Fair was the mother, shining-fair,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", " A lily sweetly blowing;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The Babe was but a lily-bud,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", " Like to his mother showing.", "") ?>
PagePoem(79, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The birds began, 'Thy Master comes!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", " Bow down, bow down before Him!'", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The date, the fig, the hazel tree,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "In rev'rence bent to adore Him.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I only, out of all the host", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", " Of bird and tree and flower,—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I, haughty, would not bow my head,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", " Nor own my Master's power.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "'Proud Aspen,' quoth the Mother-Maid,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", " 'Thy Lord, dost thou defy Him?", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "When emperors worship at His shrine,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", " Wilt courtesy deny Him?'", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I heard her voice; my heart was rent,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", " My boughs began to shiver,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And age on age, in punishment,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", " My sorrowing leaflets quiver.\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Still in the dark and tangled wood,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", " Still doth the Aspen quiver.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The haughty tree doth bear a curse,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", " Her leaflets aye must shiver.", "") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>