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Speak kindly wife the little ones will grow	A
Fairest and straightest in the warmest sun	B
We talk so often of the seed we sow	C
But maybe when we think our labour done	B
And when we look to gather in the grain	D
We'll find these stones we fling about again	E
Strewing the fruitless sod	F
Having crush'd down and stunted the sweet life	G
That bore the likeness of the life of God	F
All your hard words of bitterness and strife	G
Will lie upon their love as stones would lie	H
You think to pick them up but by and by	H
You'll find where they have lain	D
By the poor meagre crooked ears of grain	D
You will be sorry then	E
Speak kindly wife you know not half the wealth	I
Kind words bring in Ah I remember when	E
I was a little lad all youth and health	I
How I went wrong for want of one and how	C
One saved my life ay keeps it steady now	C
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My mother died you know when I had seen	J
Only a few days' light they say her face	K
Was fair and young and so it might have been	L
I cannot tell But she who took her place	K
Was coarse and hard and had a shrewish tongue	M
That fretted all the household into strife	G
Ah how that sharp voice rung	M
Through ear and heart through all the peace of life	G
It drove my father from his home at length	N
And drove him to the ale house where he learn'd	O
To drink away the good name he had earn'd	O
And drink away his precious health and strength	N
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I can remember well how he would sigh	H
Would sigh and turn from his own chimney nook	P
And how though wintry winds blew fierce and high	H
He fumbled at the door with hands that shook	P
And pass'd out slowly as though caring not	Q
Whither he went And she who tempted him	R
Was first to see the change to mark the blot	Q
That made his manhood's beauty blurred and dim	R
But had no mercy and no help for him	R
I think I see her now	C
Standing with that red flush upon her brow	C
Hurling her stinging insults thick and fast	S
As he was sadly creeping through the door	T
Until he raised his grizzled head and swore	T
And suddenly struck her growing mad at last	S
Was that the way to better him Ah no	A
She taunted him and stung his spirit so	A
That what was weakness became sin and crime	U
Wife did you ever hear	V
What happen'd in that dark and dreadful time	U
One night when I was wide awake for fear	W
Straining my baby ears to catch the sound	X
Of the fierce voices that were storming near	W
One night I heard a cry	H
So sharp so shrill a strange and fearful cry	H
And then a heavy fall upon the ground	X
And then and then in the grey morning light	Y
I saw her lie	H
With her hard face so strangely still and white	Y
With a broad purple stain upon her brow	C
And dusky shadows on her lips and eyes	Z
Ah me ah me I think I see her now	C
Wrapped in that awful death sleep as she lies	Z
I well remember how I cried and shook	P
In childish terror and with what a look	P
I turn'd to all the living faces there	A2
Seeking in vain	D
With the first dreary thrill of my despair	A2
The one face that I never saw again	E
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I was so young a little lad a child	B2
And it was hard ay very hard to be	C2
So helpless and so ignorant and wild	B2
With not a soul to love and care for me	C2
She when she storm'd about	D2
Had roughly used me and had turn'd me out	D2
Into the streets to gather what I could	E2
And what I liked of all the evil there	A2
But he my father at odd times he would	E2
Sit with his arms flung round me in his chair	A2
And tell me as he stroked my curly head	F2
How he could see the mother that was dead	F2
In my blue eyes and in my golden hair	A2
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And now I was alone quite quite alone	G2
Ah you can never know how I was toss'd	H2
From place to place how like a thing of stone	G2
Frozen for want of just a kindly tone	G2
My heart became all its good instincts cross'd	H2
And how like some distorted tree I grew	I2
Barren of all things beautiful and true	I2
Sullen and hard and reckless I was fit	J2
And ready when the devil laid his snare	A2
Quite ready to rush headlong into it	J2
And who was there to care	A2
In a wild night a well remember'd night	Y
When I was prowling in a darken'd street	K2
Trying to hush the echo of my feet	K2
Trying to hide me out of sound and sight	Y
Just as I heard the bells begin to call	L2
From a church tower as I caught a gleam	M2
Of marble pillars standing white and tall	L2
And saw the stream	M2
Of tender mellow light make as it were	N2
A shining pathway in the misty air	A2
Whither soft footsteps trod	F
Out of the world into the courts of God	F
Just then they found me out	D2
They who had watch'd and follow'd me so long	O2
They found me as I idly hung about	D2
That stately doorway and I felt the strong	O2
Relentless grip upon my arm I saw	P2
The quiet cruel smiling eyes and saw	P2
That I was bound	X
That night I lay awake upon the ground	X
Of a dark cell The moonlight quiver'd in	L
Tender and pure and sweet and hover'd round	X
Trying to cool the raging fire within	L
My eyes and heart like tender mother's touch	Q2
It wander'd over lips and hands and hair	A2
I think I feel it now it came with such	Q2
An unexpected pity to me there	A2
It was so dark and I was all alone	G2
No gentle tone	G2
To comfort and to keep me from despair	A2
A blessing had been sent ah now I know	A
Just by that little moonbeam its white glow	A
Lay on my heart till the tears fell like rain	D
The long endured sullen sense of pain	D
So dark and deep	R2
Was stirred and touch'd and almost lighten'd when	E
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I plunged my face into my hands to weep	R2
Somehow the boyish spirit came again	E
With just a little of its softness then	E
The burning fever cool'd and I could sleep	R2
Ah I remember as I lay there she	C2
I never knew came gliding through my dream	M2
As through the shadows that encompass'd me	C2
Glided the tender moonshine I could see	C2
Dim and yet purely bright just in the gleam	M2
That cross'd the prison floor a girlish face	K
Divinely beautiful an angel's face	K
And long robes fair and white	Y
Shadow'd with wings that shone like living light	Y
I seem'd to feel e'en in that gloomy place	K
The soft sweet kisses stray	S2
Over my feverish forehead as I lay	S2
But when I woke and look'd with glistening eyes	Z
Up through the grating I could only see	C2
The pale rose colour dawning in the skies	Z
From whence that message had come down to me	C2
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I was so lonely Yet more lonely far	T2
In the bright day time when my sight was bound	X
By cold hard scornful faces all around	X
Instead of prison wall and iron bar	T2
More lonely ay so much more lonely They	S2
My judges and accusers and the crowd	U2
That witness'd all my misery that day	S2
They knew not that my spirit was as proud	U2
As sensitive to suffering as theirs	V2
They knew the sweet hearth love that makes the cares	V2
And storms of life so light	Y
And the great safeguard against sin and crime	U
Stood round about their homes by day and night	Y
But I had no one in that bitter time	U
No one I thought no one to stand by me	C2
No one to teach me or to care for me	C2
I pass'd through fire as I stood waiting stood	E2
In that great dreary dreadful crowded place	K
A fire that scorch'd out even the faintest trace	K
My tearful dream had left of good and true	I2
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Wearily wearily I laid me down	W2
Within my little prison cell that night	Y
And then I long'd for death to come and drown	W2
The sinful lonely sorrowful earthly life	G
That always seem'd at strife	G
With God and man I know it was not right	Y
I know it dear but it is hard to be	C2
Shut out from all the pleasant genial life	G
That makes life worth and it was hard for me	C2
And so I lay and fix'd a vacant stare	A2
Upon my grated bars now dimly drawn	X2
Across a grey blue thunder cloud for there	A2
The moonlight came and there the rosy dawn	X2
Peep'd in a kind and friendly face to see	C2
One thing at least of peace and purity	C2
And dark thoughts brooded in my heart and brain	D
Such wicked reckless thoughts I wo	A

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