StoryTitle("caps", "The Wife of Usher's Well") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "There lived a wife at Usher's well, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And a wealthy wife was she; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "She had three stout and stalwart sons, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And sent them o'er the sea. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "They hadna been a week from her, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "A week but barely ane, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "When word came to the carline wife ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "That her three sons were gane. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "They hadna been a week from her, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "A week but barely three,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "When word came to the carline wife ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "That her sons she'd never see. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"I wish the wind may never cease, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Nor fashes in the flood, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Till my three sons come hame to me,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "In earthly flesh and blood!\" ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "It fell about the Martinmas, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "When nights are lang and mirk, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The carline wife's three sons came hame, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And their hats were o' the birk.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "It neither grew in syke nor ditch, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Nor yet in ony sheugh; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But at the gates o' Paradise ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "That birk grew fair eneugh. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"Blow up the fire, my maidens! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Bring water from the well! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "For a' my house shall feast this night, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Since my three sons are well.\" ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And she has made to them a bed, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "She's made it large and wide;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And she's ta'en her mantle her about, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Sat down at the bedside. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Up then crew the red, red cock, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And up and crew the gray; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The eldest to the youngest said, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2DQSQ", "", "\" 'Tis time we were away.\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The cock he hadna craw'd but once, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And clapp'd his wings at a', ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "When the youngest to the eldest said, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2DQ", "", "\"Brother, we must awa'.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"The cock doth craw, the day doth daw, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "The channerin' worm doth chide; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Gin we be miss'd out o' our place, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "A sair pain we maun bide.\" ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"Lie still, lie still but a little wee while,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Lie still but if we may; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Gin my mother should miss us when she wakes, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "She'll go mad ere it be day.\" ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"Fare ye weel, my mother dear! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Fareweel to barn and byre! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And fare ye weel, the bonny lass ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "That kindles my mother's fire!\"", "") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>