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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Pied Piper of Hamelin, by Robert Browning
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+Title: The Pied Piper of Hamelin
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+Author: Robert Browning
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+Illustrator: Kate Greenaway
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+Release Date: May 8, 2006 [EBook #18343]
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+Language: English
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+THE PIED PIPER
+
+OF
+
+HAMELIN
+
+
+
+
+
+THE PIED PIPER
+
+OF
+
+HAMELIN
+
+BY
+
+ROBERT BROWNING
+
+ILLUSTRATED BY
+
+KATE GREENAWAY
+
+
+
+LONDON
+
+FREDERICK WARNE AND CO., LTD.
+
+AND NEW YORK
+
+
+
+Printed in U.S.A.
+
+
+
+
+THE PIED PIPER OF HAMELIN
+
+
+I.
+
+      Hamelin Town's in Brunswick,
+    By famous Hanover city;
+      The river Weser, deep and wide,
+      Washes its wall on the southern side;
+      A pleasanter spot you never spied;
+    But, when begins my ditty,
+      Almost five hundred years ago,
+      To see the townsfolk suffer so
+        From vermin, was a pity.
+
+
+II.
+
+      Rats!
+    They fought the dogs and killed the cats,
+      And bit the babies in the cradles,
+      And ate the cheeses out of the vats.
+      And licked the soup from the cook's own ladles,
+    Split open the kegs of salted sprats,
+    Made nests inside men's Sunday hats,
+    And even spoiled the women's chats,
+      By drowning their speaking
+      With shrieking and squeaking
+    In fifty different sharps and flats.
+
+
+III.
+
+    At last the people in a body
+        To the Town Hall came flocking:
+    "Tis clear," cried they, "our Mayor's a noddy;
+        And as for our Corporation--shocking
+    To think we buy gowns lined with ermine
+    For dolts that can't or won't determine
+    What's best to rid us of our vermin!
+    You hope, because you're old and obese,
+    To find in the furry civic robe ease?
+    Rouse up, sirs! Give your brains a racking
+    To find the remedy we're lacking,
+    Or, sure as fate, we'll send you packing!"
+    At this the Mayor and Corporation
+    Quaked with a mighty consternation.
+
+
+IV.
+
+    An hour they sate in council,
+      At length the Mayor broke silence:
+    "For a guilder I'd my ermine gown sell;
+      I wish I were a mile hence!
+    It's easy to bid one rack one's brain--
+    I'm sure my poor head aches again,
+    I've scratched it so, and all in vain
+    Oh for a trap, a trap, a trap!"
+    Just as he said this, what should hap
+    At the chamber door but a gentle tap?
+    "Bless us," cried the Mayor, "what's that?"
+    (With the Corporation as he sat,
+    Looking little though wondrous fat;
+    Nor brighter was his eye, nor moister
+    Than a too-long-opened oyster,
+    Save when at noon his paunch grew mutinous
+    For a plate of turtle green and glutinous)
+    "Only a scraping of shoes on the mat?
+    Anything like the sound of a rat
+    Makes my heart go pit-a-pat!"
+
+
+V.
+
+    "Come in!"--the Mayor cried, looking bigger:
+    And in did come the strangest figure!
+    His queer long coat from heel to head
+    Was half of yellow and half of red,
+    And he himself was tall and thin,
+    With sharp blue eyes, each like a pin,
+    And light loose hair, yet swarthy skin
+    No tuft on cheek nor beard on chin,
+    But lips where smile went out and in;
+    There was no guessing his kith and kin:
+    And nobody could enough admire
+    The tall man and his quaint attire.
+    Quoth one: "It's as my great-grandsire,
+    Starting up at the Trump of Doom's tone,
+    Had walked this way from his painted tombstone!"
+
+
+VI.
+
+    He advanced to the council-table:
+    And, "Please your honours," said he, "I'm able,
+    By means of a secret charm, to draw
+    All creatures living beneath the sun,
+    That creep or swim or fly or run,
+    After me so as you never saw!
+    And I chiefly use my charm
+    On creatures that do people harm,
+    The mole and toad and newt and viper;
+    And people call me the Pied Piper."
+    (And here they noticed round his neck
+    A scarf of red and yellow stripe,
+    To match with his coat of the self-same cheque;
+    And at the scarf's end hung a pipe;
+    And his fingers they noticed were ever straying
+    As if impatient to be playing
+    Upon his pipe, as low it dangled
+    Over his vesture so old-fangled.)
+    "Yet," said he, "poor Piper as I am,
+    In Tartary I freed the Cham,
+    Last June, from his huge swarms of gnats,
+    I eased in Asia the Nizam
+    Of a monstrous brood of vampyre-bats:
+    And as for what your brain bewilders,
+    If I can rid your town of rats
+    Will you give me a thousand guilders?"
+    "One? fifty thousand!"--was the exclamation
+    Of the astonished Mayor and Corporation.
+
+
+VII.
+
+    Into the street the Piper stept,
+      Smiling first a little smile,
+    As if he knew what magic slept
+      In his quiet pipe the while;
+    Then, like a musical adept,
+    To blow the pipe his lips he wrinkled,
+    And green and blue his sharp eyes twinkled,
+    Like a candle-flame where salt is sprinkled;
+    And ere three shrill notes the pipe uttered,
+    You heard as if an army muttered;
+    And the muttering grew to a grumbling;
+    And the grumbling grew to a mighty rumbling;
+    And out of the houses the rats came tumbling.
+    Great rats, small rats, lean rats, brawny rats,
+    Brown rats, black rats, grey rats, tawny rats,
+    Grave old plodders, gay young friskers,
+      Fathers, mothers, uncles, cousins,
+    Cocking tails and pricking whiskers,
+      Families by tens and dozens,
+    Brothers, sisters, husbands, wives--
+    Followed the Piper for their lives.
+    From street to street he piped advancing,
+    And step for step they followed dancing,
+    Until they came to the river Weser
+    Wherein all plunged and perished!
+    --Save one who, stout as Julius Cæsar,
+    Swam across and lived to carry
+    (As he, the manuscript he cherished)
+    To Rat-land home his commentary:
+    Which was, "At the first shrill notes of the pipe,
+    I heard a sound as of scraping tripe,
+    And putting apples, wondrous ripe,
+    Into a cider-press's gripe:
+    And a moving away of pickle-tub-boards,
+    And a leaving ajar of conserve-cupboards,
+    And a drawing the corks of train-oil-flasks,
+    And a breaking the hoops of butter-casks:
+    And it seemed as if a voice
+    (Sweeter far than by harp or by psaltery
+    Is breathed) called out, 'Oh rats, rejoice!
+    The world is grown to one vast drysaltery!
+    So munch on, crunch on, take your nuncheon,
+    Breakfast, supper, dinner, luncheon!'
+    And just as a bulky sugar-puncheon,
+    All ready staved, like a great sun shone
+    Glorious scarce an inch before me,
+    Just as methought it said, 'Come, bore me!'
+    --I found the Weser rolling o'er me."
+
+
+VIII.
+
+    You should have heard the Hamelin people
+    Ringing the bells till they rocked the steeple
+    "Go," cried the Mayor, "and get long poles,
+    Poke out the nests and block up the holes!
+    Consult with carpenters and builders,
+    And leave in our town not even a trace
+    Of the rats!"--when suddenly up the face
+    Of the Piper perked in the market-place,
+    With a, "First, if you please, my thousand guilders!"
+
+
+IX.
+
+    A thousand guilders! The Mayor looked blue;
+    So did the Corporation too.
+    For council dinners made rare havoc
+    With Claret, Moselle, Vin-de-Grave, Hock;
+    And half the money would replenish
+    Their cellar's biggest butt with Rhenish.
+    To pay this sum to a wandering fellow
+    With a gipsy coat of red and yellow!
+    "Beside," quoth the Mayor with a knowing wink,
+    "Our business was done at the river's brink;
+    We saw with our eyes the vermin sink,
+    And what's dead can't come to life, I think.
+    So, friend, we're not the folks to shrink
+    From the duty of giving you something to drink,
+    And a matter of money to put in your poke;
+    But as for the guilders, what we spoke
+    Of them, as you very well know, was in joke.
+    Beside, our losses have made us thrifty.
+    A thousand guilders! Come, take fifty!"
+
+
+X.
+
+    The Piper's face fell, and he cried,
+    "No trifling! I can't wait, beside!
+    I've promised to visit by dinner-time
+    Bagdad, and accept the prime
+    Of the Head-Cook's pottage, all he's rich in,
+    For having left, in the Caliph's kitchen,
+    Of a nest of scorpions no survivor:
+    With him I proved no bargain-driver,
+    With you, don't think I'll bate a stiver!
+    And folks who put me in a passion
+    May find me pipe after another fashion."
+
+
+XI.
+
+    "How?" cried the Mayor, "d' ye think I brook
+    Being worse treated than a Cook?
+    Insulted by a lazy ribald
+    With idle pipe and vesture piebald?
+    You threaten us, fellow? Do your worst,
+    Blow your pipe there till you burst!"
+
+
+XII.
+
+    Once more he stept into the street,
+      And to his lips again
+    Laid his long pipe of smooth straight cane;
+      And ere he blew three notes
+                                     (such sweet
+    Soft notes as yet musician's cunning
+      Never gave the enraptured air)
+    There was a rustling,
+    that seemed like a bustling
+    Of merry crowds justling at pitching and hustling,
+    Small feet were pattering, wooden shoes clattering,
+    Little hands clapping and little tongues chattering,
+    And, like fowls in a farm-yard when barley is scattering,
+    Out came the children running.
+    All the little boys and girls,
+    With rosy cheeks and flaxen curls,
+    And sparkling eyes and teeth like pearls.
+    Tripping
+    and skipping,
+    ran merrily after
+    The wonderful music with shouting and laughter.
+
+
+XIII.
+
+    The Mayor was dumb, and the Council stood
+    As if they were changed into blocks of wood,
+    Unable to move a step, or cry
+    To the children merrily skipping by.
+    --Could only follow with the eye
+    That joyous crowd at the Piper's back.
+    But how the Mayor was on the rack,
+    And the wretched Council's bosoms beat,
+    As the Piper turned from the High Street
+    To where the Weser rolled its waters
+    Right in the way of their sons and daughters!
+    However he turned from South to West,
+    And to Koppelberg Hill his steps addressed,
+    And after him the children pressed;
+    Great was the joy in every breast.
+    "He never can cross that mighty top!
+    He's forced to let the piping drop,
+    And we shall see our children stop!"
+    When, lo, as they reached the mountain-side,
+    A wondrous portal opened wide,
+    As if a cavern was suddenly hollowed;
+    And the Piper advanced and the children followed,
+    And when all were in to the very last,
+    The door in the mountain side shut fast.
+    Did I say, all? No; One was lame,
+    And could not dance the whole of the way;
+    And in after years, if you would blame
+    His sadness, he was used to say,--
+    "It's dull in our town since my playmates left!
+    I can't forget that I'm bereft
+    Of all the pleasant sights they see,
+    Which the Piper also promised me.
+    For he led us, he said, to a joyous land,
+    Joining the town and just at hand,
+    Where waters gushed and fruit-trees grew,
+    And flowers put forth a fairer hue,
+    And everything was strange and new;
+    The sparrows were brighter than peacocks here,
+    And their dogs outran our fallow deer,
+    And honey-bees had lost their stings,
+    And horses were born with eagles' wings;
+    And just as I became assured
+    My lame foot would be speedily cured,
+    The music stopped and I stood still,
+    And found myself outside the hill,
+    Left alone against my will,
+    To go now limping as before,
+    And never hear of that country more!"
+
+
+XIV.
+
+    Alas, alas for Hamelin!
+      There came into many a burgher's pate
+      A text which says that Heaven's gate
+      Opes to the rich at as easy rate
+    As the needle's eye takes a camel in!
+    The Mayor sent East, West, North, and South,
+    To offer the Piper, by word of mouth,
+      Wherever it was men's lot to find him,
+    Silver and gold to his heart's content,
+    If he'd only return the way he went,
+      And bring the children behind him.
+    But when they saw 'twas a lost endeavour,
+    And Piper and dancers were gone for ever,
+    They made a decree that lawyers never
+      Should think their records dated duly
+    If, after the day of the month and year,
+    These words did not as well appear,
+    "And so long after what happened here
+      On the Twenty-second of July,
+    Thirteen hundred and seventy-six:"
+    And the better in memory to fix
+    The place of the children's last retreat,
+    They called it, the Pied Piper's Street--
+    Where any one playing on pipe or tabor,
+    Was sure for the future to lose his labour.
+    Nor suffered they hostelry or tavern
+      To shock with mirth a street so solemn;
+    But opposite the place of the cavern
+      They wrote the story on a column,
+    And on the great church-window painted
+    The same, to make the world acquainted
+    How their children were stolen away,
+    And there it stands to this very day.
+    And I must not omit to say
+    That in Transylvania there's a tribe
+    Of alien people that ascribe
+    The outlandish ways and dress
+    On which their neighbours lay such stress,
+    To their fathers and mothers having risen
+    Out of some subterraneous prison
+    Into which they were trepanned
+    Long time ago in a mighty band
+    Out of Hamelin town in Brunswick land,
+    But how or why, they don't understand.
+
+
+XV.
+
+    So, Willy, let me and you be wipers
+    Of scores out with all men--especially pipers!
+    And, whether they pipe us free from rats or from mice,
+    If we've promised them aught, let us keep our promise!
+
+
+
+
+    First published 1888
+    Original wood block designs engraved
+    by Edward Evans Limited
+
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+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_1" id="Page_1">[Pg 1]</a></span></p>
+<h1><span class="smcap">The<br />
+Pied Piper</span></h1>
+
+<h4><span class="smcap">of</span></h4>
+
+<h1><span class="smcap">Hamelin</span></h1>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_2" id="Page_2">[Pg 2]</a></span></p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 337px;">
+<a href="images/img02.jpg"><img src="images/img02th.jpg" width="337" height="400" alt="" title="" /></a>
+</div>
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_3" id="Page_3">[Pg 3]</a></span></p>
+<h1><a name="THE_PIED_PIPER" id="THE_PIED_PIPER"></a>THE PIED PIPER</h1>
+
+<h4>OF</h4>
+
+<h1>HAMELIN</h1>
+
+<h3>BY</h3>
+
+<h2>ROBERT BROWNING</h2>
+
+<h4>ILLUSTRATED BY</h4>
+
+<h3>KATE GREENAWAY</h3>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;">
+<a href="images/img03.jpg"><img src="images/img03th.jpg" width="400" height="334" alt="" title="" /></a>
+</div>
+
+<p class='center'>LONDON<br />
+FREDERICK WARNE AND CO., <span class="smcap">Ltd</span>.<br />
+AND NEW YORK</p>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_4" id="Page_4">[Pg 4]</a></span></p>
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 372px;">
+<a href="images/img04.jpg"><img src="images/img04th.jpg" width="372" height="400" alt="" title="" /></a>
+</div>
+
+<p class='center'>Printed in U.S.A.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_5" id="Page_5">[Pg 5]</a></span></p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 200px;">
+<img src="images/crest.jpg" width="200" height="175" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;">
+<a href="images/img05.jpg"><img src="images/img05th.jpg" width="400" height="139" alt="" title="" /></a>
+</div>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="THE_PIED_PIPER_OF_HAMELIN" id="THE_PIED_PIPER_OF_HAMELIN"></a>THE PIED PIPER OF HAMELIN</h2>
+
+<p class='soundbyte'><a href="files/aud001.mp3">Listen</a></p>
+
+<h3>I.</h3>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i2">Hamelin Town's in Brunswick,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">By famous Hanover city;<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">The river Weser, deep and wide,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">Washes its wall on the southern side;<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">A pleasanter spot you never spied;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">But, when begins my ditty,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">Almost five hundred years ago,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">To see the townsfolk suffer so<br /></span>
+<span class="i4">From vermin, was a pity.<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_6" id="Page_6">[Pg 6]</a></span></p>
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;">
+<a href="images/img06.jpg"><img src="images/img06th.jpg" width="400" height="241" alt="" title="" /></a>
+</div>
+
+<p class='soundbyte'><a href="files/aud002.mp3">Listen</a></p>
+
+<h3>II.</h3>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i2">Rats!<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">They fought the dogs and killed the cats,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">And bit the babies in the cradles,<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_7" id="Page_7">[Pg 7]</a></span></p>
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 392px;">
+<a href="images/img07.jpg"><img src="images/img07th.jpg" width="392" height="400" alt="" title="" /></a>
+</div>
+
+<p class='center'>And ate the cheeses out of the vats.</p>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_8" id="Page_8">[Pg 8]</a></span></p>
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;">
+<a href="images/img08.jpg"><img src="images/img08th.jpg" width="400" height="373" alt="" title="" /></a>
+</div>
+
+<p class='center'>And licked the soup from the cook's own ladles,</p>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_9" id="Page_9">[Pg 9]</a></span></p>
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;">
+<a href="images/img09.jpg"><img src="images/img09th.jpg" width="400" height="307" alt="" title="" /></a>
+</div>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Split open the kegs of salted sprats,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Made nests inside men's Sunday hats,<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_10" id="Page_10">[Pg 10]</a></span></p>
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 377px;">
+<a href="images/img10.jpg"><img src="images/img10th.jpg" width="377" height="400" alt="" title="" /></a>
+</div>
+
+<p class='center'>And even spoiled the women's chats,</p>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_11" id="Page_11">[Pg 11]</a></span></p>
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 388px;">
+<a href="images/img11.jpg"><img src="images/img11th.jpg" width="388" height="400" alt="" title="" /></a>
+</div>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i2">By drowning their speaking<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">With shrieking and squeaking<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">In fifty different sharps and flats.<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_12" id="Page_12">[Pg 12]</a></span></p>
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 385px;">
+<a href="images/img12.jpg"><img src="images/img12th.jpg" width="385" height="400" alt="" title="" /></a>
+</div>
+
+<p class='soundbyte'><a href="files/aud003.mp3">Listen</a></p>
+
+<h3>III.</h3>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">At last the people in a body<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">To the Town Hall came flocking:<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">"Tis clear," cried they, "our Mayor's a noddy;<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">And as for our Corporation&mdash;shocking<br /></span>
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_13" id="Page_13">[Pg 13]</a></span>
+<span class="i0">To think we buy gowns lined with ermine<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">For dolts that can't or won't determine<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">What's best to rid us of our vermin!<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">You hope, because you're old and obese,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">To find in the furry civic robe ease?<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Rouse up, sirs! Give your brains a racking<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">To find the remedy we're lacking,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Or, sure as fate, we'll send you packing!"<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">At this the Mayor and Corporation<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Quaked with a mighty consternation.<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p class='soundbyte'><a href="files/aud004.mp3">Listen</a></p>
+
+<h3>IV.</h3>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">An hour they sate in council,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">At length the Mayor broke silence:<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">"For a guilder I'd my ermine gown sell;<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">I wish I were a mile hence!<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">It's easy to bid one rack one's brain&mdash;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">I'm sure my poor head aches again,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">I've scratched it so, and all in vain<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Oh for a trap, a trap, a trap!"<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Just as he said this, what should hap<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">At the chamber door but a gentle tap?<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">"Bless us," cried the Mayor, "what's that?"<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">(With the Corporation as he sat,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Looking little though wondrous fat;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Nor brighter was his eye, nor moister<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Than a too-long-opened oyster,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Save when at noon his paunch grew mutinous<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">For a plate of turtle green and glutinous)<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">"Only a scraping of shoes on the mat?<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">Anything like the sound of a rat<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">Makes my heart go pit-a-pat!"<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_14" id="Page_14">[Pg 14]</a></span></p>
+
+<p class='soundbyte'><a href="files/aud005.mp3">Listen</a></p>
+
+<h3>V.</h3>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">"Come in!"&mdash;the Mayor cried, looking bigger:<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And in did come the strangest figure!<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">His queer long coat from heel to head<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Was half of yellow and half of red,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And he himself was tall and thin,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">With sharp blue eyes, each like a pin,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And light loose hair, yet swarthy skin<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">No tuft on cheek nor beard on chin,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">But lips where smile went out and in;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">There was no guessing his kith and kin:<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And nobody could enough admire<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">The tall man and his quaint attire.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Quoth one: "It's as my great-grandsire,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Starting up at the Trump of Doom's tone,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Had walked this way from his painted tombstone!"<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p class='soundbyte'><a href="files/aud006.mp3">Listen</a></p>
+
+<h3>VI.</h3>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">He advanced to the council-table:<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And, "Please your honours," said he, "I'm able,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">By means of a secret charm, to draw<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">All creatures living beneath the sun,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">That creep or swim or fly or run,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">After me so as you never saw!<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And I chiefly use my charm<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">On creatures that do people harm,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">The mole and toad and newt and viper;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And people call me the Pied Piper."<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">(And here they noticed round his neck<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">A scarf of red and yellow stripe,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">To match with his coat of the self-same cheque;<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_15" id="Page_15">[Pg 15]</a></span></p>
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 325px;">
+<a href="images/img15.jpg"><img src="images/img15th.jpg" width="325" height="400" alt="" title="" /></a>
+</div>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">And at the scarf's end hung a pipe;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And his fingers they noticed were ever straying<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">As if impatient to be playing<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Upon his pipe, as low it dangled<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Over his vesture so old-fangled.)<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_16" id="Page_16">[Pg 16]</a></span></p><div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;">
+<a href="images/img16.jpg"><img src="images/img16th.jpg" width="400" height="351" alt="" title="" /></a>
+</div>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">"Yet," said he, "poor Piper as I am,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">In Tartary I freed the Cham,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Last June, from his huge swarms of gnats,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">I eased in Asia the Nizam<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Of a monstrous brood of vampyre-bats:<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And as for what your brain bewilders,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">If I can rid your town of rats<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Will you give me a thousand guilders?"<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">"One? fifty thousand!"&mdash;was the exclamation<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Of the astonished Mayor and Corporation.<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_17" id="Page_17">[Pg 17]</a></span></p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;">
+<a href="images/img17.jpg"><img src="images/img17th.jpg" width="400" height="341" alt="" title="" /></a>
+</div>
+
+<p class='soundbyte'><a href="files/aud007.mp3">Listen</a></p>
+
+<h3>VII.</h3>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Into the street the Piper stept,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">Smiling first a little smile,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">As if he knew what magic slept<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">In his quiet pipe the while;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Then, like a musical adept,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">To blow the pipe his lips he wrinkled,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And green and blue his sharp eyes twinkled,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Like a candle-flame where salt is sprinkled;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And ere three shrill notes the pipe uttered,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">You heard as if an army muttered;<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_18" id="Page_18">[Pg 18]</a></span></p>
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 394px;">
+<a href="images/img18.jpg"><img src="images/img18th.jpg" width="394" height="400" alt="" title="" /></a>
+</div>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">And the muttering grew to a grumbling;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And the grumbling grew to a mighty rumbling;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And out of the houses the rats came tumbling.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Great rats, small rats, lean rats, brawny rats,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Brown rats, black rats, grey rats, tawny rats,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Grave old plodders, gay young friskers,<br /></span>
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_19" id="Page_19">[Pg 19]</a></span>
+<span class="i2">Fathers, mothers, uncles, cousins,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Cocking tails and pricking whiskers,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">Families by tens and dozens,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Brothers, sisters, husbands, wives&mdash;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Followed the Piper for their lives.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">From street to street he piped advancing,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And step for step they followed dancing,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Until they came to the river Weser<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Wherein all plunged and perished!<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">&mdash;Save one who, stout as Julius C&aelig;sar,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Swam across and lived to carry<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">(As he, the manuscript he cherished)<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">To Rat-land home his commentary:<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Which was, "At the first shrill notes of the pipe,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">I heard a sound as of scraping tripe,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And putting apples, wondrous ripe,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Into a cider-press's gripe:<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And a moving away of pickle-tub-boards,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And a leaving ajar of conserve-cupboards,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And a drawing the corks of train-oil-flasks,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And a breaking the hoops of butter-casks:<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And it seemed as if a voice<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">(Sweeter far than by harp or by psaltery<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Is breathed) called out, 'Oh rats, rejoice!<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">The world is grown to one vast drysaltery!<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">So munch on, crunch on, take your nuncheon,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Breakfast, supper, dinner, luncheon!'<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And just as a bulky sugar-puncheon,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">All ready staved, like a great sun shone<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Glorious scarce an inch before me,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Just as methought it said, 'Come, bore me!'<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">&mdash;I found the Weser rolling o'er me."<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_20" id="Page_20">[Pg 20]</a></span></p>
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;">
+<a href="images/img20.jpg"><img src="images/img20th.jpg" width="400" height="366" alt="" title="" /></a>
+</div>
+
+<p class='soundbyte'><a href="files/aud008.mp3">Listen</a></p>
+
+<h3>VIII.</h3>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">You should have heard the Hamelin people<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Ringing the bells till they rocked the steeple<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">"Go," cried the Mayor, "and get long poles,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Poke out the nests and block up the holes!<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_21" id="Page_21">[Pg 21]</a></span></p>
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 344px;">
+<a href="images/img21.jpg"><img src="images/img21th.jpg" width="344" height="400" alt="" title="" /></a>
+</div>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Consult with carpenters and builders,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And leave in our town not even a trace<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Of the rats!"&mdash;when suddenly up the face<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Of the Piper perked in the market-place,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">With a, "First, if you please, my thousand guilders!"<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_22" id="Page_22">[Pg 22]</a></span></p>
+
+<p class='soundbyte'><a href="files/aud009.mp3">Listen</a></p>
+
+<h3>IX.</h3>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">A thousand guilders! The Mayor looked blue;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">So did the Corporation too.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">For council dinners made rare havoc<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">With Claret, Moselle, Vin-de-Grave, Hock;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And half the money would replenish<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Their cellar's biggest butt with Rhenish.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">To pay this sum to a wandering fellow<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">With a gipsy coat of red and yellow!<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">"Beside," quoth the Mayor with a knowing wink,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">"Our business was done at the river's brink;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">We saw with our eyes the vermin sink,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And what's dead can't come to life, I think.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">So, friend, we're not the folks to shrink<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">From the duty of giving you something to drink,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And a matter of money to put in your poke;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">But as for the guilders, what we spoke<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Of them, as you very well know, was in joke.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Beside, our losses have made us thrifty.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">A thousand guilders! Come, take fifty!"<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_23" id="Page_23">[Pg 23]</a></span></p>
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 338px;">
+<a href="images/img23.jpg"><img src="images/img23th.jpg" width="338" height="400" alt="" title="" /></a>
+</div>
+
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_24" id="Page_24">[Pg 24]</a></span></p>
+
+<p class='soundbyte'><a href="files/aud010.mp3">Listen</a></p>
+
+<h3>X.</h3>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">The Piper's face fell, and he cried,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">"No trifling! I can't wait, beside!<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">I've promised to visit by dinner-time<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Bagdad, and accept the prime<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Of the Head-Cook's pottage, all he's rich in,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">For having left, in the Caliph's kitchen,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Of a nest of scorpions no survivor:<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">With him I proved no bargain-driver,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">With you, don't think I'll bate a stiver!<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And folks who put me in a passion<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">May find me pipe after another fashion."<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p class='soundbyte'><a href="files/aud011.mp3">Listen</a></p>
+
+<h3>XI.</h3>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">"How?" cried the Mayor, "d' ye think I brook<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Being worse treated than a Cook?<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Insulted by a lazy ribald<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">With idle pipe and vesture piebald?<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">You threaten us, fellow? Do your worst,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Blow your pipe there till you burst!"<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_25" id="Page_25">[Pg 25]</a></span></p>
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 363px;">
+<a href="images/img25.jpg"><img src="images/img25th.jpg" width="363" height="400" alt="" title="" /></a>
+</div>
+
+<p class='soundbyte'><a href="files/aud012.mp3">Listen</a></p>
+
+<h3>XII.</h3>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Once more he stept into the street,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">And to his lips again<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Laid his long pipe of smooth straight cane;<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_26" id="Page_26">[Pg 26]</a></span></p>
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 324px;">
+<a href="images/img26.jpg"><img src="images/img26th.jpg" width="324" height="400" alt="" title="" /></a>
+</div>
+
+<p class='center'>And ere he blew three notes</p>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_27" id="Page_27">[Pg 27]</a></span></p>
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 449px;">
+<a href="images/img27.jpg"><img src="images/img27th.jpg" width="449" height="400" alt="" title="" /></a>
+</div>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i10">(such sweet<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Soft notes as yet musician's cunning<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">Never gave the enraptured air)<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_28" id="Page_28">[Pg 28]</a></span></p>
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;">
+<a href="images/img28.jpg"><img src="images/img28th.jpg" width="400" height="356" alt="" title="" /></a>
+</div>
+
+<p class='center'>There was a rustling,</p>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_29" id="Page_29">[Pg 29]</a></span></p>
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 355px;">
+<a href="images/img29.jpg"><img src="images/img29th.jpg" width="355" height="400" alt="" title="" /></a>
+</div>
+
+<p class='center'>that seemed like a bustling</p>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_30" id="Page_30">[Pg 30]</a></span></p>
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;">
+<a href="images/img30.jpg"><img src="images/img30th.jpg" width="400" height="370" alt="" title="" /></a>
+</div>
+
+<p class='center'>Of merry crowds justling at pitching and hustling,</p>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_31" id="Page_31">[Pg 31]</a></span></p>
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 355px;">
+<a href="images/img31.jpg"><img src="images/img31th.jpg" width="355" height="400" alt="" title="" /></a>
+</div>
+
+<p class='center'>Small feet were pattering, wooden shoes clattering,</p>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_32" id="Page_32">[Pg 32]</a></span></p>
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;">
+<a href="images/img32.jpg"><img src="images/img32th.jpg" width="400" height="268" alt="" title="" /></a>
+</div>
+
+<p class='center'>Little hands clapping and little tongues chattering,</p>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_33" id="Page_33">[Pg 33]</a></span></p>
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;">
+<a href="images/img33.jpg"><img src="images/img33th.jpg" width="400" height="372" alt="" title="" /></a>
+</div>
+
+<p class='center'>And, like fowls in a farm-yard when barley is scattering,</p>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_34" id="Page_34">[Pg 34]</a></span></p>
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;">
+<a href="images/img34.jpg"><img src="images/img34th.jpg" width="400" height="374" alt="" title="" /></a>
+</div>
+
+<p class='center'>Out came the children running.</p>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_35" id="Page_35">[Pg 35]</a></span></p>
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 392px;">
+<a href="images/img35.jpg"><img src="images/img35th.jpg" width="392" height="400" alt="" title="" /></a>
+</div>
+
+<p class='center'>All the little boys and girls,</p>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_36" id="Page_36">[Pg 36]</a></span></p>
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;">
+<a href="images/img36.jpg"><img src="images/img36th.jpg" width="400" height="307" alt="" title="" /></a>
+</div>
+
+<p class='center'>With rosy cheeks and flaxen curls,</p>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_37" id="Page_37">[Pg 37]</a></span></p>
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;">
+<a href="images/img37.jpg"><img src="images/img37th.jpg" width="400" height="384" alt="" title="" /></a>
+</div>
+
+<p class='center'>And sparkling eyes and teeth like pearls.</p>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_38" id="Page_38">[Pg 38]</a></span></p>
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;">
+<a href="images/img38.jpg"><img src="images/img38th.jpg" width="400" height="211" alt="" title="" /></a>
+</div>
+
+<p class='center'>Tripping</p>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_39" id="Page_39">[Pg 39]</a></span></p>
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;">
+<a href="images/img39.jpg"><img src="images/img39th.jpg" width="400" height="211" alt="" title="" /></a>
+</div>
+
+<p class='center'>and skipping,</p>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_40" id="Page_40">[Pg 40]</a></span></p>
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;">
+<a href="images/img40.jpg"><img src="images/img40th.jpg" width="400" height="203" alt="" title="" /></a>
+</div>
+
+<p class='center'>ran merrily after</p>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_41" id="Page_41">[Pg 41]</a></span></p>
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;">
+<a href="images/img41.jpg"><img src="images/img41th.jpg" width="400" height="357" alt="" title="" /></a>
+</div>
+
+<p class='center'>The wonderful music with shouting and laughter.</p>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_42" id="Page_42">[Pg 42]</a></span></p>
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;">
+<a href="images/img42.jpg"><img src="images/img42th.jpg" width="400" height="386" alt="" title="" /></a>
+</div>
+
+<p class='soundbyte'><a href="files/aud013.mp3">Listen</a></p>
+
+<h3>XIII.</h3>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">The Mayor was dumb, and the Council stood<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">As if they were changed into blocks of wood,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Unable to move a step, or cry<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">To the children merrily skipping by.<br /></span>
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_43" id="Page_43">[Pg 43]</a></span>
+<span class="i0">&mdash;Could only follow with the eye<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">That joyous crowd at the Piper's back.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">But how the Mayor was on the rack,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And the wretched Council's bosoms beat,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">As the Piper turned from the High Street<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">To where the Weser rolled its waters<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Right in the way of their sons and daughters!<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">However he turned from South to West,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And to Koppelberg Hill his steps addressed,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And after him the children pressed;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Great was the joy in every breast.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">"He never can cross that mighty top!<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">He's forced to let the piping drop,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And we shall see our children stop!"<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">When, lo, as they reached the mountain-side,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">A wondrous portal opened wide,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">As if a cavern was suddenly hollowed;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And the Piper advanced and the children followed,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And when all were in to the very last,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">The door in the mountain side shut fast.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Did I say, all? No; One was lame,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And could not dance the whole of the way;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And in after years, if you would blame<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">His sadness, he was used to say,&mdash;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">"It's dull in our town since my playmates left!<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">I can't forget that I'm bereft<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Of all the pleasant sights they see,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Which the Piper also promised me.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">For he led us, he said, to a joyous land,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Joining the town and just at hand,<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_44" id="Page_44">[Pg 44]</a></span></p>
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 298px;">
+<a href="images/img44.jpg"><img src="images/img44th.jpg" width="298" height="400" alt="" title="" /></a>
+</div>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_45" id="Page_45">[Pg 45]</a></span>
+<span class="i0">Where waters gushed and fruit-trees grew,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And flowers put forth a fairer hue,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And everything was strange and new;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">The sparrows were brighter than peacocks here,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And their dogs outran our fallow deer,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And honey-bees had lost their stings,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And horses were born with eagles' wings;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And just as I became assured<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">My lame foot would be speedily cured,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">The music stopped and I stood still,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And found myself outside the hill,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Left alone against my will,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">To go now limping as before,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And never hear of that country more!"<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p class='soundbyte'><a href="files/aud014.mp3">Listen</a></p>
+
+<h3>XIV.</h3>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Alas, alas for Hamelin!<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">There came into many a burgher's pate<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">A text which says that Heaven's gate<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">Opes to the rich at as easy rate<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">As the needle's eye takes a camel in!<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">The Mayor sent East, West, North, and South,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">To offer the Piper, by word of mouth,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">Wherever it was men's lot to find him,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Silver and gold to his heart's content,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">If he'd only return the way he went,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">And bring the children behind him.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">But when they saw 'twas a lost endeavour,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And Piper and dancers were gone for ever,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">They made a decree that lawyers never<br /></span>
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_46" id="Page_46">[Pg 46]</a></span>
+<span class="i2">Should think their records dated duly<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">If, after the day of the month and year,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">These words did not as well appear,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">"And so long after what happened here<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">On the Twenty-second of July,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Thirteen hundred and seventy-six:"<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And the better in memory to fix<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">The place of the children's last retreat,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">They called it, the Pied Piper's Street&mdash;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Where any one playing on pipe or tabor,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Was sure for the future to lose his labour.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Nor suffered they hostelry or tavern<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">To shock with mirth a street so solemn;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">But opposite the place of the cavern<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">They wrote the story on a column,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And on the great church-window painted<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">The same, to make the world acquainted<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">How their children were stolen away,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And there it stands to this very day.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And I must not omit to say<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">That in Transylvania there's a tribe<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Of alien people that ascribe<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">The outlandish ways and dress<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">On which their neighbours lay such stress,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">To their fathers and mothers having risen<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Out of some subterraneous prison<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Into which they were trepanned<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Long time ago in a mighty band<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Out of Hamelin town in Brunswick land,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">But how or why, they don't understand.<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_47" id="Page_47">[Pg 47]</a></span></p>
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 384px;">
+<a href="images/img47.jpg"><img src="images/img47th.jpg" width="384" height="400" alt="" title="" /></a>
+</div>
+
+<p class='soundbyte'><a href="files/aud015.mp3">Listen</a></p>
+
+<h3>XV.</h3>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">So, Willy, let me and you be wipers<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Of scores out with all men&mdash;especially pipers!<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And, whether they pipe us free from rats or from mice,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">If we've promised them aught, let us keep our promise!<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_48" id="Page_48">[Pg 48]</a></span></p>
+<p class='center'>First published 1888<br />
+Original wood block designs engraved<br />
+by Edward Evans Limited</p>
+
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_49" id="Page_49">[Pg 49]</a></span></p>
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 326px;">
+<a href="images/img49.jpg"><img src="images/img49th.jpg" width="326" height="400" alt="" title="" /></a>
+</div>
+
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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Pied Piper of Hamelin, by Robert Browning
+
+This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with
+almost no restrictions whatsoever.  You may copy it, give it away or
+re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included
+with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org
+
+
+Title: The Pied Piper of Hamelin
+
+Author: Robert Browning
+
+Illustrator: Kate Greenaway
+
+Release Date: May 8, 2006 [EBook #18343]
+
+Language: English
+
+Character set encoding: ASCII
+
+*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE PIED PIPER OF HAMELIN ***
+
+
+
+
+Produced by Suzanne Shell, Christine D. and the Online
+Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+THE PIED PIPER
+
+OF
+
+HAMELIN
+
+
+
+
+
+THE PIED PIPER
+
+OF
+
+HAMELIN
+
+BY
+
+ROBERT BROWNING
+
+ILLUSTRATED BY
+
+KATE GREENAWAY
+
+
+
+LONDON
+
+FREDERICK WARNE AND CO., LTD.
+
+AND NEW YORK
+
+
+
+Printed in U.S.A.
+
+
+
+
+THE PIED PIPER OF HAMELIN
+
+
+I.
+
+      Hamelin Town's in Brunswick,
+    By famous Hanover city;
+      The river Weser, deep and wide,
+      Washes its wall on the southern side;
+      A pleasanter spot you never spied;
+    But, when begins my ditty,
+      Almost five hundred years ago,
+      To see the townsfolk suffer so
+        From vermin, was a pity.
+
+
+II.
+
+      Rats!
+    They fought the dogs and killed the cats,
+      And bit the babies in the cradles,
+      And ate the cheeses out of the vats.
+      And licked the soup from the cook's own ladles,
+    Split open the kegs of salted sprats,
+    Made nests inside men's Sunday hats,
+    And even spoiled the women's chats,
+      By drowning their speaking
+      With shrieking and squeaking
+    In fifty different sharps and flats.
+
+
+III.
+
+    At last the people in a body
+        To the Town Hall came flocking:
+    "Tis clear," cried they, "our Mayor's a noddy;
+        And as for our Corporation--shocking
+    To think we buy gowns lined with ermine
+    For dolts that can't or won't determine
+    What's best to rid us of our vermin!
+    You hope, because you're old and obese,
+    To find in the furry civic robe ease?
+    Rouse up, sirs! Give your brains a racking
+    To find the remedy we're lacking,
+    Or, sure as fate, we'll send you packing!"
+    At this the Mayor and Corporation
+    Quaked with a mighty consternation.
+
+
+IV.
+
+    An hour they sate in council,
+      At length the Mayor broke silence:
+    "For a guilder I'd my ermine gown sell;
+      I wish I were a mile hence!
+    It's easy to bid one rack one's brain--
+    I'm sure my poor head aches again,
+    I've scratched it so, and all in vain
+    Oh for a trap, a trap, a trap!"
+    Just as he said this, what should hap
+    At the chamber door but a gentle tap?
+    "Bless us," cried the Mayor, "what's that?"
+    (With the Corporation as he sat,
+    Looking little though wondrous fat;
+    Nor brighter was his eye, nor moister
+    Than a too-long-opened oyster,
+    Save when at noon his paunch grew mutinous
+    For a plate of turtle green and glutinous)
+    "Only a scraping of shoes on the mat?
+    Anything like the sound of a rat
+    Makes my heart go pit-a-pat!"
+
+
+V.
+
+    "Come in!"--the Mayor cried, looking bigger:
+    And in did come the strangest figure!
+    His queer long coat from heel to head
+    Was half of yellow and half of red,
+    And he himself was tall and thin,
+    With sharp blue eyes, each like a pin,
+    And light loose hair, yet swarthy skin
+    No tuft on cheek nor beard on chin,
+    But lips where smile went out and in;
+    There was no guessing his kith and kin:
+    And nobody could enough admire
+    The tall man and his quaint attire.
+    Quoth one: "It's as my great-grandsire,
+    Starting up at the Trump of Doom's tone,
+    Had walked this way from his painted tombstone!"
+
+
+VI.
+
+    He advanced to the council-table:
+    And, "Please your honours," said he, "I'm able,
+    By means of a secret charm, to draw
+    All creatures living beneath the sun,
+    That creep or swim or fly or run,
+    After me so as you never saw!
+    And I chiefly use my charm
+    On creatures that do people harm,
+    The mole and toad and newt and viper;
+    And people call me the Pied Piper."
+    (And here they noticed round his neck
+    A scarf of red and yellow stripe,
+    To match with his coat of the self-same cheque;
+    And at the scarf's end hung a pipe;
+    And his fingers they noticed were ever straying
+    As if impatient to be playing
+    Upon his pipe, as low it dangled
+    Over his vesture so old-fangled.)
+    "Yet," said he, "poor Piper as I am,
+    In Tartary I freed the Cham,
+    Last June, from his huge swarms of gnats,
+    I eased in Asia the Nizam
+    Of a monstrous brood of vampyre-bats:
+    And as for what your brain bewilders,
+    If I can rid your town of rats
+    Will you give me a thousand guilders?"
+    "One? fifty thousand!"--was the exclamation
+    Of the astonished Mayor and Corporation.
+
+
+VII.
+
+    Into the street the Piper stept,
+      Smiling first a little smile,
+    As if he knew what magic slept
+      In his quiet pipe the while;
+    Then, like a musical adept,
+    To blow the pipe his lips he wrinkled,
+    And green and blue his sharp eyes twinkled,
+    Like a candle-flame where salt is sprinkled;
+    And ere three shrill notes the pipe uttered,
+    You heard as if an army muttered;
+    And the muttering grew to a grumbling;
+    And the grumbling grew to a mighty rumbling;
+    And out of the houses the rats came tumbling.
+    Great rats, small rats, lean rats, brawny rats,
+    Brown rats, black rats, grey rats, tawny rats,
+    Grave old plodders, gay young friskers,
+      Fathers, mothers, uncles, cousins,
+    Cocking tails and pricking whiskers,
+      Families by tens and dozens,
+    Brothers, sisters, husbands, wives--
+    Followed the Piper for their lives.
+    From street to street he piped advancing,
+    And step for step they followed dancing,
+    Until they came to the river Weser
+    Wherein all plunged and perished!
+    --Save one who, stout as Julius Caesar,
+    Swam across and lived to carry
+    (As he, the manuscript he cherished)
+    To Rat-land home his commentary:
+    Which was, "At the first shrill notes of the pipe,
+    I heard a sound as of scraping tripe,
+    And putting apples, wondrous ripe,
+    Into a cider-press's gripe:
+    And a moving away of pickle-tub-boards,
+    And a leaving ajar of conserve-cupboards,
+    And a drawing the corks of train-oil-flasks,
+    And a breaking the hoops of butter-casks:
+    And it seemed as if a voice
+    (Sweeter far than by harp or by psaltery
+    Is breathed) called out, 'Oh rats, rejoice!
+    The world is grown to one vast drysaltery!
+    So munch on, crunch on, take your nuncheon,
+    Breakfast, supper, dinner, luncheon!'
+    And just as a bulky sugar-puncheon,
+    All ready staved, like a great sun shone
+    Glorious scarce an inch before me,
+    Just as methought it said, 'Come, bore me!'
+    --I found the Weser rolling o'er me."
+
+
+VIII.
+
+    You should have heard the Hamelin people
+    Ringing the bells till they rocked the steeple
+    "Go," cried the Mayor, "and get long poles,
+    Poke out the nests and block up the holes!
+    Consult with carpenters and builders,
+    And leave in our town not even a trace
+    Of the rats!"--when suddenly up the face
+    Of the Piper perked in the market-place,
+    With a, "First, if you please, my thousand guilders!"
+
+
+IX.
+
+    A thousand guilders! The Mayor looked blue;
+    So did the Corporation too.
+    For council dinners made rare havoc
+    With Claret, Moselle, Vin-de-Grave, Hock;
+    And half the money would replenish
+    Their cellar's biggest butt with Rhenish.
+    To pay this sum to a wandering fellow
+    With a gipsy coat of red and yellow!
+    "Beside," quoth the Mayor with a knowing wink,
+    "Our business was done at the river's brink;
+    We saw with our eyes the vermin sink,
+    And what's dead can't come to life, I think.
+    So, friend, we're not the folks to shrink
+    From the duty of giving you something to drink,
+    And a matter of money to put in your poke;
+    But as for the guilders, what we spoke
+    Of them, as you very well know, was in joke.
+    Beside, our losses have made us thrifty.
+    A thousand guilders! Come, take fifty!"
+
+
+X.
+
+    The Piper's face fell, and he cried,
+    "No trifling! I can't wait, beside!
+    I've promised to visit by dinner-time
+    Bagdad, and accept the prime
+    Of the Head-Cook's pottage, all he's rich in,
+    For having left, in the Caliph's kitchen,
+    Of a nest of scorpions no survivor:
+    With him I proved no bargain-driver,
+    With you, don't think I'll bate a stiver!
+    And folks who put me in a passion
+    May find me pipe after another fashion."
+
+
+XI.
+
+    "How?" cried the Mayor, "d' ye think I brook
+    Being worse treated than a Cook?
+    Insulted by a lazy ribald
+    With idle pipe and vesture piebald?
+    You threaten us, fellow? Do your worst,
+    Blow your pipe there till you burst!"
+
+
+XII.
+
+    Once more he stept into the street,
+      And to his lips again
+    Laid his long pipe of smooth straight cane;
+      And ere he blew three notes
+                                     (such sweet
+    Soft notes as yet musician's cunning
+      Never gave the enraptured air)
+    There was a rustling,
+    that seemed like a bustling
+    Of merry crowds justling at pitching and hustling,
+    Small feet were pattering, wooden shoes clattering,
+    Little hands clapping and little tongues chattering,
+    And, like fowls in a farm-yard when barley is scattering,
+    Out came the children running.
+    All the little boys and girls,
+    With rosy cheeks and flaxen curls,
+    And sparkling eyes and teeth like pearls.
+    Tripping
+    and skipping,
+    ran merrily after
+    The wonderful music with shouting and laughter.
+
+
+XIII.
+
+    The Mayor was dumb, and the Council stood
+    As if they were changed into blocks of wood,
+    Unable to move a step, or cry
+    To the children merrily skipping by.
+    --Could only follow with the eye
+    That joyous crowd at the Piper's back.
+    But how the Mayor was on the rack,
+    And the wretched Council's bosoms beat,
+    As the Piper turned from the High Street
+    To where the Weser rolled its waters
+    Right in the way of their sons and daughters!
+    However he turned from South to West,
+    And to Koppelberg Hill his steps addressed,
+    And after him the children pressed;
+    Great was the joy in every breast.
+    "He never can cross that mighty top!
+    He's forced to let the piping drop,
+    And we shall see our children stop!"
+    When, lo, as they reached the mountain-side,
+    A wondrous portal opened wide,
+    As if a cavern was suddenly hollowed;
+    And the Piper advanced and the children followed,
+    And when all were in to the very last,
+    The door in the mountain side shut fast.
+    Did I say, all? No; One was lame,
+    And could not dance the whole of the way;
+    And in after years, if you would blame
+    His sadness, he was used to say,--
+    "It's dull in our town since my playmates left!
+    I can't forget that I'm bereft
+    Of all the pleasant sights they see,
+    Which the Piper also promised me.
+    For he led us, he said, to a joyous land,
+    Joining the town and just at hand,
+    Where waters gushed and fruit-trees grew,
+    And flowers put forth a fairer hue,
+    And everything was strange and new;
+    The sparrows were brighter than peacocks here,
+    And their dogs outran our fallow deer,
+    And honey-bees had lost their stings,
+    And horses were born with eagles' wings;
+    And just as I became assured
+    My lame foot would be speedily cured,
+    The music stopped and I stood still,
+    And found myself outside the hill,
+    Left alone against my will,
+    To go now limping as before,
+    And never hear of that country more!"
+
+
+XIV.
+
+    Alas, alas for Hamelin!
+      There came into many a burgher's pate
+      A text which says that Heaven's gate
+      Opes to the rich at as easy rate
+    As the needle's eye takes a camel in!
+    The Mayor sent East, West, North, and South,
+    To offer the Piper, by word of mouth,
+      Wherever it was men's lot to find him,
+    Silver and gold to his heart's content,
+    If he'd only return the way he went,
+      And bring the children behind him.
+    But when they saw 'twas a lost endeavour,
+    And Piper and dancers were gone for ever,
+    They made a decree that lawyers never
+      Should think their records dated duly
+    If, after the day of the month and year,
+    These words did not as well appear,
+    "And so long after what happened here
+      On the Twenty-second of July,
+    Thirteen hundred and seventy-six:"
+    And the better in memory to fix
+    The place of the children's last retreat,
+    They called it, the Pied Piper's Street--
+    Where any one playing on pipe or tabor,
+    Was sure for the future to lose his labour.
+    Nor suffered they hostelry or tavern
+      To shock with mirth a street so solemn;
+    But opposite the place of the cavern
+      They wrote the story on a column,
+    And on the great church-window painted
+    The same, to make the world acquainted
+    How their children were stolen away,
+    And there it stands to this very day.
+    And I must not omit to say
+    That in Transylvania there's a tribe
+    Of alien people that ascribe
+    The outlandish ways and dress
+    On which their neighbours lay such stress,
+    To their fathers and mothers having risen
+    Out of some subterraneous prison
+    Into which they were trepanned
+    Long time ago in a mighty band
+    Out of Hamelin town in Brunswick land,
+    But how or why, they don't understand.
+
+
+XV.
+
+    So, Willy, let me and you be wipers
+    Of scores out with all men--especially pipers!
+    And, whether they pipe us free from rats or from mice,
+    If we've promised them aught, let us keep our promise!
+
+
+
+
+    First published 1888
+    Original wood block designs engraved
+    by Edward Evans Limited
+
+
+
+
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