StoryTitle("caps", "The Merman") ?>
StoryOrigin("center", "by Alfred Lord Tennyson") ?>
SubTitle("caps", "I") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Who would be", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "A merman bold,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Sitting alone", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Singing alone", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Under the sea,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "With a crown of gold,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "On a throne?", "") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>
SubTitle("caps", "II") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I would be a merman bold,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I would sit and sing the whole of the day;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I would fill the sea-halls with a voice of power;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But at night I would roam abroad and play", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "With the mermaids in and out of the rocks,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Dressing their hair with the white sea-flower;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And holding them back by their flowing locks", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I would kiss them often under the sea,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And kiss them again till they kiss'd me", "") ?>
PoemLine("L6", "", " Laughingly, laughingly;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And then we would wander away, away,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To the pale-green sea-groves straight and high,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L6", "", " Chasing each other merrily.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "", "") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>
SubTitle("caps", "III") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "There would be neither moon nor star;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But the wave would make music above us afar --", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Low thunder and light in the magic night --", "") ?>
PoemLine("L6", "", " Neither moon nor star.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "We would call aloud in the dreamy dells,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Call to each other and whoop and cry", "") ?>
PoemLine("L6", "", " All night, merrily, merrily.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "They would pelt me with starry spangles and shells,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Laughing and clapping their hands between,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L6", "", " All night, merrily, merrily,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But I would throw to them back in mine", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Turkis and agate and almondine;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Then leaping out upon them unseen", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I would kiss them often under the sea,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And kiss them again till they kiss'd me", "") ?>
PoemLine("L6", "", " Laughingly, laughingly.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "O, what a happy life where mine", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Under the hollow-hung ocean green!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Soft are the moss-beds under the sea;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "We would live merrily, merrily.", "") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>