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Come list to my story	A
More sorry by far	B
To her who must tell it	C
And you who will hear it	C
Than all others are	B
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'Tis the darling of each who	D
Has spirit so mild	E
As to grieve for the Human	F
The sad man or woman	F
Or desolate child	E
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Of eyes my dear children	F
Yours are not the first	G
Through whose teary lashes	H
In soft pitying splashes	I
The warm drops have burst	G
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At hearing it Many	A
For hundreds of years	J
Have in the same fashion	F
Their heartfelt compassion	F
Shown thus with their tears	K
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A dying father in his arms	L
Two children did enfold	M
The eldest one a little boy	N
Was only three years old	M
Even less than that had served to tint	O
The baby's head with gold	M
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The mother too lay ill to death	P
No human power might save	Q
And to her darlings that same hour	R
Her farewell blessing gave	Q
Father and mother one in life	S
Were laid in the same grave	Q
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But ere the latest breath was drawn	T
The father's brother came	U
Nearest of kin upon whose love	V
The orphaned ones had claim	U
And he made oath to cherish them	W
As his own blood and name	U
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The will devised three hundred pounds	X
A year unto the son	F
Three hundred on her marriage day	Y
To Jane the little one	F
Thus it was from the uncle's greed	Z
That trouble first begun	F
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For if by chance they both should die	A2
He was to have their gold	M
He felt no love for either child	E
His heart was hard and cold	M
And while he promised fair he planned	B2
A scheme both bad and bold	M
	-
A twelvemonth did his darksome mind	C2
Plot for the dreadful deed	Z
Two brutal ruffians he hired	D2
To help him in his need	Z
And yet so secret were his ways	E2
None knew to intercede	Z
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He formed a wily plausive tale	F2
And told it everywhere	G2
How the two children were to go	H2
Under the best of care	G2
Two friends of his for holiday	Y
To London for the fair	G2
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The horses stood before the gate	I2
The ruffians twain astride	J2
And gay with scarlet girth and rein	K2
They started side by side	J2
O blithe the babies' spirits were	R
That they could have a ride	J2
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For every pretty sight they saw	L2
For every sound they heard	D2
The boy had noisy laugh or shout	M2
The girl had winsome word	D2
He questioned never satisfied	J2
She chattered like a bird	D2
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Meanwhile each ruffian surly sat	N2
In dark and restless mood	O2
Little the prattlers in their joy	N
Such silence understood	P2
As on through the warm early day	Y
They rode towards the wood	P2
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They reached the leafy wilderness	Q2
And then the way grew wild	E
But ever with new glee the babes	R2
The gathering gloom beguiled	E
Until at last quite cheered and won	F
One of the ruffians smiled	E
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Love had o'ercome within his breast	S2
His wicked avarice	Q2
I will not kill the little things	T2
He said for any price	U2
Then passed hot words between the two	D
But only once or twice	U2
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For blows fell and the kindly one	F
Dropped to the earth and died	J2
The children sank upon the ground	V2
Trembling and terrified	J2
And clung together wondering	W2
And moaned and sobbed and cried	J2
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Then he who lived led them away	Y
Both shivering with dread	X2
They begged for food he paused a space	Y2
Stay here awhile he said	X2
And I will go into the town	Z2
At once and fetch you bread	X2
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He went In their sweet innocence	A3
They trusted to his word	D2
Meanwhile the sparkling morning sun	F
With a grey cloud was blurred	D2
And long in vain they waited there	G2
Nor cried again nor stirred	D2
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How can I write the mournful end	B3
And tell how up and down	Z2
At last by hunger driven they stray	Y
Over the mosses brown	Z2
She clutching at his little coat	C3
He clinging to her gown	Z2
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More than one day more than one night	D3
Comes on them there alone	E3
They search for blackberries so weak	F3
And starving they are grown	E3
Now through a thicket of wild brier	R
Now 'gainst a hindering stone	E3
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Then they lie down to die poor babes	R2
The cruel ground receives	G3
Their little bodies as a bed	X2
Long time the south wind grieves	G3
Above them and a hovering bough	H3
A pall of shadow weaves	G3
And robin red breasts pity them	W
And cover them with leaves	G3

Clara Doty Bates

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