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I	A
And Willy my eldest born is gone you say little Anne	B
Ruddy and white and strong on his legs he looks like a man	B
And Willy's wife has written she never was over wise	C
Never the wife for Willy he would n't take my advice	D
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II	A
For Annie you see her father was not the man to save	E
Had n't a head to manage and drank himself into his grave	E
Pretty enough very pretty but I was against it for one	F
Eh but he would n't hear me and Willy you say is gone	G
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III	A
Willy my beauty my eldest born the flower of the flock	H
Never a man could fling him for Willy stood like a rock	H
Here's a leg for a babe of a week ' says doctor and he would be bound	I
There was not his like that year in twenty parishes round	I
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IV	E
Strong of his hands and strong on his legs but still of his tongue	J
I ought to have gone before him I wonder he went so young	J
I cannot cry for him Annie I have not long to stay	K
Perhaps I shall see him the sooner for he lived far away	K
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V	E
Why do you look at me Annie you think I am hard and cold	L
But all my children have gone before me I am so old	L
I cannot weep for Willy nor can I weep for the rest	M
Only at your age Annie I could have wept with the best	M
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VI	E
For I remember a quarrel I had with your father my dear	N
All for a slanderous story that cost me many a tear	O
I mean your grandfather Annie it cost me a world of woe	P
Seventy years ago my darling seventy years ago	P
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VII	E
For Jenny my cousin had come to the place and I knew right well	Q
That Jenny had tript in her time I knew but I would not tell	Q
And she to be coming and slandering me the base little liar	R
But the tongue is a fire as you know my dear the tongue is a fire	R
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VIII	E
And the parson made it his text that week and he said likewise	C
That a lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies	C
That a lie which is all a lie may be met and fought with outright	S
But a lie which is part a truth is a harder matter to fight	S
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IX	C
And Willy had not been down to the farm for a week and a day	K
And all things look'd half dead tho' it was the middle of May	K
Jenny to slander me who knew what Jenny had been	T
But soiling another Annie will never make oneself clean	U
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X	C
And I cried myself well nigh blind and all of an evening late	V
I climb'd to the top of the garth and stood by the road at the gate	V
The moon like a rick on fire was rising over the dale	W
And whit whit whit in the bush beside me chirrupt the nightingale	W
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XI	C
All of a sudden he stopt there past by the gate of the farm	X
Willy he did n't see me and Jenny hung on his arm	X
Out into the road I started and spoke I scarce knew how	Y
Ah there's no fool like the old one it makes me angry now	Y
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XII	C
Willy stood up like a man and look'd the thing that he meant	Z
Jenny the viper made me a mocking courtesy and went	Z
And I said Let us part in a hundred years it'll all be the same	A2
You cannot love me at all if you love not my good name '	-
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XIII	C
And he turn'd and I saw his eyes all wet in the sweet moonshine	B2
Sweetheart I love you so well that your good name is mine	B2
And what do I care for Jane let her speak of you well of ill	C2
But marry me out of hand we two shall be happy still '	-
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XIV	E
Marry you Willy ' said I but I needs must speak my mind	D2
And I fear you'll listen to tales be jealous and hard and unkind '	-
But he turn'd and claspt me in his arms and answer'd No love no '	-
Seventy years ago my darling seventy years ago	P
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XV	E
So Willy and I were wedded I wore a lilac gown	E2
And the ringers rang with a will and he gave the ringers a crown	E2
But the first that ever I bare was dead before he was born	F2
Shadow and shine is life little Annie flower and thorn	F2
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XVI	E
That was the first time too that ever I thought of death	G2
There lay the sweet little body that never had drawn a breath	G2
I had not wept little Anne not since I had been a wife	E
But I wept like a child that day for the babe had fought for his life	E
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XVII	E
His dear little face was troubled as if with anger or pain	H2
I look'd at the still little body his trouble had all been in vain	H2
For Willy I cannot weep I shall see him another morn	F2
But I wept like a child for the child that was dead before he was born	F2
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XVIII	E
But he cheer'd me my good man for he seldom said me nay	K
Kind like a man was he like a man too would have his way	K
Never jealous not he we had many a happy year	N
And he died and I could not weep my own time seem'd so near	N
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XIX	C
But I wish'd it had been God's will that I too then could have died	I2
I began to be tired a little and fain had slept at his side	I2
And that was ten years back or more if I don't forget	J2
But as to the children Annie they're all about me yet	J2
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XX	C
Pattering over the boards my Annie who left me at two	K2
Patter she goes my own little Annie an Annie like you	K2
Pattering over the boards she comes and goes at her will	C2
While Harry is in the five acre and Charlie ploughing the hill	C2
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XXI	C
And Harry and Charlie I hear them too they sing to their team	L2
Often they come to the door in a pleasant kind of a dream	L2
They come and sit by my chair they hover about my bed	M2
I am not always certain if they be alive or dead	M2
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XXII	C
And yet I know for a truth there's none of them left alive	E
For Harry went at sixty your father at sixty five	E
And Willy my eldest born at nigh threescore and ten	N2
I knew them all as babies and now they're elderly men	N2
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XXIII	C
For mine is a time of peace it is not often I grieve	E
I am oftener sitting at home in my father's farm at eve	E
And the neighbors come and laugh and gossip and so do I	E
I find myself often laughing at things that have long gone by	E
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XXIV	E
To be sure the preacher says our sins should make us sad	O2
But mine is a time of peace and there is Grace to be had	O2
And God not man is the Judge of us all when life shall cease	C
And in this Book little Annie the message is one of Peace	C
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XXV	E
And age is a time of peace so it be free from pain	H2
And happy has been my life but I would not live it again	N2
I seem to be tired a little that's all and long for rest	M
Only at your age Annie I could have wept with the best	M
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XXVI	E
So Willy has gone my beauty my eldest born my flower	R
But how can I weep for Willy he has but gone for an hour	R
Gone for a minute my son from this room into the next	P2
I too shall go in a minute What time have I to be vext	P2
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XXVII	E
And Willy's wife has written she never was over wise	C
Get me my glasses Annie thank God that I keep my eyes	C
There is but a trifle left you when I shall have past away	K
But stay with the old woman now you cannot have long to stay	K

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