SubTitle("caps", "Harper's Song") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "O listen, good people in fair guildhall—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "(Saxon gate, Norman tower on the Roman wall)", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "A King in forest green and an Abbot in gray", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Rode west together on the Pilgrims' Way,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And the Abbot thought the King was a crossbowman,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And the King thought the Abbot a sacristan.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "(On White Horse Hill the bright sun shone,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And blithe sang the wind by the Blowing Stone,—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "O, the bridle-bells ring merrily-sweet", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "To the clickety-clack of the hackney's feet!)", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Said the King in green to the Abbot in gray,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "\"Shrewd-built is yon Abbey as I hear say,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "With Purbeck marble and Portland stone,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Stately and fair as a Cæsar's throne.\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "\"Not so,\" quo' the Abbot, and shook his wise head,—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "\"Well-founded our cloisters, when all is said,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But the stones be rough as the mortar is thick,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And piers of rubble are faced with brick.\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "(The Saxon crypt and the Norman wall", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Keep faith together though Kingdoms fall,—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "O, the mellow chime that the great bells ring", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Is wooing the folk to the one true King!)", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Said the Abbot in gray to the King in green,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "\"Winchester Castle is fair to be seen,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And London Tower by the changeful tide", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Is sure as strong as the seas are wide.\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But the King shook his head and spurred on his way,—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "\"London is loyal as I dare say,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But the Border is fighting us tooth and horn,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And the Lion must still hunt the Unicorn.\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "(The trumpet blared from the fortress tower,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "The stern alarum clanged the hour,—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "O, the wild Welsh Marches their war-song sing", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "To the tune that the swords on the morions ring!)", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The King and the Abbot came riding down", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To the market-square of Chippenham town,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Where wool-packs, wheatears, cheese-wych, flax,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Malmsey and bacon pay their tax.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Quo' the King to the Abbot, \"The Crown must live", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "By what all England hath to give.\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "\"Faith,\" quoth the Abbot, \"good sign is here", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Tithes are a-gathering for our clerkes' cheer.\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "(The song of the Mint is the song I sing,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "The crown that the beggar may share with the King,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And the clink of the coin rhymes marvelous well", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "To castle, or chapel, or market-bell!)", "") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>