<html xmlns:tei="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"><body><h1 align="center" class="head">Pierrot Goes</h1><p class="byline"> CHARLOTTE BECKER <br xmlns:exist="http://exist.sourceforge.net/NS/exist" xmlns:html="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"/><span class="smallcaps">IN EVERYBODY'S MAGAZINE</span><br xmlns:exist="http://exist.sourceforge.net/NS/exist" xmlns:html="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"/>Permission to reproduce in this book</p><div class="stanza"><p class="line">UP among the chimneys tall</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Lay the garret of Pierrot.</p><p class="line">Here came trooping to his call</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Fancies no one else might know;</p><p class="line">Here he bade the spiders spin</p><p class="line">Webs to hide his treasure in.</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">Here he heard the night wind croon</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Slumber-songs for sleepyheads;</p><p class="line">Here he spied the spendthrift moon</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Strew her silver on the leads;</p><p class="line">Here he wove a coronet</p><p class="line">Of quaint lyrics for Pierrette.</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">But the bugles blew him down</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">To the fields with war beset;</p><p class="line">Marched him past the quiet town,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Past the window of Pierrette;</p><p class="line">Comrade now of sword and lance,</p><p class="line">Pierrot gave his dreams to France. </p></div></body></html> · Great War