StoryTitle("caps", "May in~the~Green‑Wood") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "In somer when the shawes be sheyne,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And leves be large and long,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Hit is full merry in feyre foreste", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "To here the foulys song.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To se the dere draw to the dale", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And leve the hilles hee,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And shadow him in the leves grene", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Under the green-wode tree.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Hit befell on Whitsontide", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Early in a May mornyng, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The Sonne up faire can shyne,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And the briddis mery can syng.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"This is a mery mornyng,\" said Litulle Johne,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2DQ", "", "\"Be Hym that dyed on tre;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "A more mery man than I am one", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Lyves not in Christianté.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"Pluk up thi hert, my dere mayster,\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Litulle Johne can say,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"And thynk hit is a fulle fayre tyme", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "In a mornynge of May.\"", "") ?>
Poet("Anonymous", "15th century") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>