SubTitle("caps", "The Caged Bouverel") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I am a little finch with wings of gold,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "I dwell within a cage upon the wall.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I cannot fly within my narrow fold,—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "I eat, and drink, and sing, and that is all.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "My good old master talks to me sometimes,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "But if he knows my speech I cannot tell.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "He is so large he cannot sing nor fly,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "But he and I are both named Bouverel.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I think perhaps he really wants to sing,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Because the busy hammer that he wields", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Goes clinking light as merry bells that ring", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "When morris-dancers frolic in the fields,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And this is what the music seems to tell", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To me, the finch, the feathered Bouverel.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2DQ", "", "\"Kling-a-ling—clack!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Masters, what do ye lack?", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Hammer your heart in't, and strike with a knack!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Flackety-kling", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Biff, batico, bing!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Platter, cup, candelstick, necklace or ring!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Spare not your labor, lads, make the gold sing,—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And some day perhaps ye may work for the King!\"", "") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>