StoryTitle("caps", "Good King Wenceslas") ?>
StoryOrigin("center", SmallCapsText("John Mason Neale") ) ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PagePoem(143, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Good King Wenceslas looked out", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", " On the Feast of Stephen,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "When the snow lay round about,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", " Deep, and crisp, and even.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Brightly shone the moon that night", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", " Though the frost was cruel,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "When a poor man came in sight,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", " Gath'ring winter fuel.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"Hither, page, and stand by me,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", " If thou know'st it, telling,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Yonder peasant, who is he?", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", " Where and what his dwelling?\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"Sire, he lives a good league hence,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", " Underneath the mountain;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Right against the forest fence,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", " By Saint Agnes' fountain.\"", "") ?>
PagePoem(144, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"Bring me flesh, and bring me wine,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", " Bring me pine-logs hither;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Thou and I will see him dine,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", " When we bear them thither.\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Page and monarch, forth they went,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", " Forth they went together;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Through the rude wind's wild lament", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", " And the bitter weather.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"Sire, the night is darker now,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", " And the wind blows stronger;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Fails my heart, I know not how,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", " I can go no longer.\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"Mark my footsteps, good my page;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", " Tread thou in them boldly:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Thou shalt find the winter rage", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", " Freeze thy blood less coldly.\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "In his master's steps he trod,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", " Where the snow lay dinted;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Heat was in the very sod", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", " Which the saint had printed.", "") ?>
PagePoem(145, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Therefore, Christian men, be sure,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", " Wealth or rank possessing,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Ye who now will bless the poor,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", " Shall yourselves find blessing.", "") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>