StoryTitle("caps", "The Night Wind") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PagePoem(3, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Have you ever heard the wind go \"Yooooo\"? ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "'T is a pitiful sound to hear!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "It seems to chill you through and through ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "With a strange and speechless fear.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "'T is the voice of the night that broods outside ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "When folks should be asleep,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And many and many 's the time I 've cried ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To the darkness brooding far and wide ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Over the land and the deep:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"Whom do you want, O lonely night, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "That you wail the long hours through?\" ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And the night would say in its ghostly way:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L6DQ", "", "\"Yoooooooo! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L6", "", "Yoooooooo! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L6", "", "Yoooooooo!\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "My mother told me long ago ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "(When I was a little tad) ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "That when the night went wailing so, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Somebody had been bad;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And then, when I was snug in bed, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Whither I had been sent,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "With blankets pulled up 'round my head, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I'd think of what my mother 'd said, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And wonder what boy she meant!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And \"Who's been bad to-day?\" I'd ask ", "") ?>
PagePoem(4, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Of the wind that hoarsely blew,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And the voice would say in its meaningful way: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L6DQ", "", "\"Yoooooooo!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L6", "", "Yoooooooo! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L6", "", "Yoooooooo!\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "That this was true I must allow—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "You 'll not believe it, though! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Yes, though I 'm quite a model now, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "I was not always so.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And if you doubt what things I say, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Suppose you make the test; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Suppose, when you 've been bad some day ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And up to bed are sent away", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "From mother and the rest—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Suppose you ask, \"Who has been bad?\" ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And then you 'll hear what 's true;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "For the wind will moan in its ruefulest tone: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L6DQ", "", "\"Yoooooooo!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L6", "", "Yoooooooo!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L6", "", "Yoooooooo!\"", "") ?>
PoemAttribution("85", SmallCapsText("—Eugene Field.")) ?>
PoemEnd() ?>