StoryTitle("caps", "The Mermaid") ?>
StoryOrigin("center", "by Alfred Lord Tennyson") ?>
SubTitle("caps", "I") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Who would be", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "A mermaid fair,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Singing alone,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Combing her hair", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Under the sea,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "In a golden curl", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "With a comb of pearl,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "On a throne?", "") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>
SubTitle("caps", "II") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I would be a mermaid fair;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I would sing to myself the whole of the day;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "With a comb of pearl I would comb my hair;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And still as I comb'd I would sing and say,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "\"Who is it loves me? who loves not me?\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I would comb my hair till my ringlets would fall", "") ?>
PoemLine("L6", "", " Low adown, low adown,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "From under my starry sea-bud crown", "") ?>
PoemLine("L6", "", " Low adown and around,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And I should look like a fountain of gold", "") ?>
PoemLine("L6", "", " Springing alone", "") ?>
PoemLine("L6", "", " With a shrill inner sound", "") ?>
PoemLine("L6", "", " Over the throne", "") ?>
PoemLine("L6", "", " In the midst of the hall;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Till that great sea-snake under the sea", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "From his coiled sleeps in the central deeps", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Would slowly trail himself sevenfold", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Round the hall where I sate, and look in at the gate", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "With his large calm eyes for the love of me.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And all the mermen under the sea", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Would feel their immortality", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Die in their hearts for the love of me.", "") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>
SubTitle("caps", "III") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But at night I would wander away, away,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L6", "", " I would fling on each side my low-flowing locks,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And lightly vault from the throne and play", "") ?>
PoemLine("L6", "", " With the mermen in and out of the rocks;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "We would run to and fro, and hide and seek,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L6", "", " On the broad sea-wolds in the crimson shells,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Whose silvery spikes are nighest the sea.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But if any came near I would call and shriek,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And adown the steep like a wave I would leap", "") ?>
PoemLine("L6", "", " From the diamond-ledges that jut from the dells;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "For I would not be kiss'd by all who would list", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Of the bold merry mermen under the sea.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "They would sue me, and woo me, and flatter me,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "In the purple twilights under the sea;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But the king of them all would carry me,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Woo me, and win me, and marry me,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "In the branching jaspers under the sea.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Then all the dry-pied things that be", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "In the hueless mosses under the sea", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Would curl round my silver feet silently,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "All looking up for the love of me.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And if I should carol aloud, from aloft", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "All things that are forked, and horned, and soft", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Would lean out from the hollow sphere of the sea,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "All looking down for the love of me.", "") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>