StoryTitle("caps", "A Dedication") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Oft when the house lay silent in the heat", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "My thoughts would be so full of you, my sweet,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "That dreaming half—I seemed to hear once more", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Your little fingers fluttering at the door,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The pitter patter of your childish feet", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "In joyous rhythm cross the echoing floor.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Then small, soft hands would nestle into mine,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And warm soft arms around my neck would twine,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "As soft and warm the dream child on my knees,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Cuddling so close in clear young voice would tease", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And tease and tease in mimicked glad young whine", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "For \"Just one little story if you please.\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "So half in jest and half in earnest, too,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Mostly I think to dream my dreaming true,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I'd conjure up long tales of lands afar", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And days gone by that yet remembered are;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Shaping my stories with this end in view", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To gain the verdict \"Tell some more, Mamma.\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "For I was happy when I had beguiled", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Into my life the spirit of a child.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Thus one by one the weary hours flew", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And page by page a little volume grew,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "So—that my dreams with truth be reconciled,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Take it, my darling, it was writ for you.", "") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>
Attribution(100, "April, 1875")?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Long years have sped since that poor book was penned.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "None read the pages. Therefore at the end", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Of this world's life I dedicate to two ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Small boys—her sons—whose question'ng eyes of blue", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Tell me that dreams of childhood never end", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "This book. So take it boys—'twas writ for you.", "") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>
Attribution(100, "1911")?>