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The Beggar Girl.

A, BALLAD, WRITTEN FIFTY YEARS, AGO.

 

 

Over the mountain and over the moor,

Hungry and barefoot, I wander forlorn ;
My father is dead, and my mother is poor,

And she grieves for the days that will never return.
Pity, kind gentlemen, friends of humanity,

Cold blows the wind; and. the night's. coming on:
Give me, some food; for my mother, for charity,

Give me some food, and then I will begone.

Say not I’m a low lazy beggar, and bold enough;
Fain would [ learn. both to knit and to sew;
I’ve two little brothers at home—when, they’re old enough,
They will work hard for the gifts you bestow.
Pity, kind gentlemen, friends of humanity,
Cold blows the wind, and the night’s coming on:
Give me some food for my mother, for charity,
Give me some food, and then I will begone.

Think, while you revel, so careless and so free,
Secure from the wind, and well-clothed and fed,
Should fortune so change it, how hard it would be,

To sit, ata door for a morsel of bread.
Pity, kind gentlemen, friends of humanity,

Cold blows the wind, and the night’s coming on:
Give me some food for my mother, for charity,

Give me some food, and then I will begone.

Vv. 14 LY.