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I	A
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A revelation came on Jane	B
The widow of a labouring swain	B
And first her body trembled sharp	C
Then all the woman was a harp	C
With winds along the strings she heard	D
Though there was neither tone nor word	D
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II	A
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For past our hearing was the air	E
Beyond our speaking what it bare	E
And she within herself had sight	F
Of heaven at work to cleanse outright	F
To make of her a mansion fit	G
For angel hosts inside to sit	G
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III	A
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They entered and forthwith entranced	H
Her body braced her members danced	H
Surprisingly the woman leapt	I
And countenance composed she kept	I
As gossip neighbours in the lane	B
Declared who saw and pitied Jane	B
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IV	-
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These knew she had been reading books	J
The which was witnessed by her looks	J
Of late she had a mania	K
For mad folk in America	K
And said for sure they led the way	L
But meat and beer were meant to stay	L
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V	-
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That she had visited a fair	E
Had seen a gauzy lady there	E
Alive with tricks on legs alone	M
As good as wings was also known	M
And longwhiles in a sullen mood	N
Before her jumping Jane would brood	N
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VI	-
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A good knee's height they say she sprang	O
Her arms and feet like those who hang	O
As if afire the body sped	P
And neither pair contributed	Q
She jumped in silence she was thought	R
A corpse to resurrection caught	S
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VII	-
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The villagers were mostly dazed	T
They jeered they wondered and they praised	T
'Twas guessed by some she was inspired	D
And some would have it she had hired	D
An engine in her petticoats	U
To turn their wits and win their votes	U
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VIII	-
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Her first was Winny Earnes a kind	V
Of woman not to dance inclined	V
But she went up entirely won	W
Ere Jump to glory Jane had done	W
And once a vixen wild for speech	X
She found the better way to preach	X
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IX	U
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No long time after Jane was seen	Y
Directing jumps at Daddy Green	Y
And that old man to watch her fly	-
Had eyebrows made of arches high	-
Till homeward he likewise did hop	Z
Oft calling on himself to stop	Z
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X	U
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It was a scene when man and maid	A2
Abandoning all other trade	A2
And careless of the call to meals	U
Went jumping at the woman's heels	U
By dozens they were counted soon	B2
Without a sound to tell their tune	B2
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XI	U
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Along the roads they came and crossed	C2
The fields and o'er the hills were lost	C2
And in the evening reappeared	D2
Then short like hobbled horses reared	D2
And down upon the grass they plumped	E2
Alone their Jane to glory jumped	E2
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XII	U
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At morn they rose to see her spring	F2
All going as an engine thing	F2
And lighter than the gossamer	G2
She led the bobbers following her	G2
Past old acquaintances and where	E
They made the stranger stupid stare	E
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XIII	U
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When turnips were a filling crop	Z
In scorn they jumped a butcher's shop	Z
Or spite of threats to flog and souse	U
They jumped for shame a public house	U
And much their legs were seized with rage	H2
If passing by the vicarage	H2
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XIV	-
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The tightness of a hempen rope	I2
Their bodies got but laundry soap	I2
Not handsomer can rub the skin	J2
For token of the washed within	J2
Occasionally coughers cast	K2
A leg aloft and coughed their last	K2
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XV	-
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The weaker maids and some old men	L2
Requiring rafters for the pen	L2
On rainy nights were those who fell	M2
The rest were quite a miracle	N2
Refreshed as you may search all round	O2
On Club feast days and cry Not found	O2
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XVI	-
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For these poor innocents that slept	I
Against the sky soft women wept	I
For never did they any theft	P2
'Twas known when they their camping left	P2
And jumped the cold out of their rags	U
In spirit rich as money bags	U
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XVII	-
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They jumped the question jumped reply	-
And whether to insist deny	-
Reprove persuade they jumped in ranks	U
Or singly straight the arms to flanks	U
And straight the legs with just a knee	U
For bending in a mild degree	U
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XVIII	-
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The villagers might call them mad	Q2
An endless holiday they had	Q2
Of pleasure in a serious work	R2
They taught by leaps where perils lurk	R2
And with the lambkins practised sports	U
For 'scaping Satan's pounds and quarts	U
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XIX	U
	-
It really seemed on certain days	U
When they bobbed up their Lord to praise	U
And bobbing up they caught the glance	U
Of light our secret is to dance	U
And hold the tongue from hindering peace	U
To dance out preacher and police	U
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XX	U
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Those flies of boys disturbed them sore	S2
On Sundays and when daylight wore	S2
With withies cut from hedge or copse	U
They treated them as whipping tops	U
And flung big stones with cruel aim	T2
Yet all the flock jumped on the same	T2
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XXI	U
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For what could persecution do	U2
To worry such a blessed crew	U2
On whom it was as wind to fire	G2
Which set them always jumping higher	G2
The parson and the lawyer tried	V2
By meek persistency defied	V2
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XXII	U
	-
But if they bore they could pursue	U
As well and this the Bishop too	U
When inner warnings proved him plain	B
The chase for Jump to glory Jane	B
She knew it by his being sent	W2
To bless the feasting in the tent	W2
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XXIII	U
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Not less than fifty years on end	X2
The Squire had been the Bishop's friend	X2
And his poor tenants harmless ones	U
With souls to save fed not on buns	U
But angry meats she took her place	U
Outside to show the way to grace	U
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XXIV	-
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In apron suit the Bishop stood	Y2
The crowding people kindly viewed	N
A gaunt grey woman he saw rise	U
On air with most beseeching eyes	U
And evident as light in dark	Z2
It was she set to him for mark	Z2
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XXV	-
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Her highest leap had come with ease	U
She jumped to reach the Bishop's knees	U
Compressing tight her arms and lips	U
She sought to jump the Bishop's hips	U
Her aim flew at his apron band	A3
That he might see and understand	A3
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XXVI	-
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The mild inquiry of his gaze	U
Was altered to a peaked amaze	U
At sight of thirty in ascent	W2
To gain his notice clearly bent	W2
And greatly Jane at heart was vexed	B3
By his ploughed look of mind perplexed	B3
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XXVII	-
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In jumps that said Beware the pit	G
More eloquent than speaking it	G
That said Avoid the boiled the roast	C3
The heated nose on face of ghost	C3
Which comes of drinking up and o'er	G2
The flesh with me did Jane implore	S2
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XXVIII	-
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She jumped him high as huntsmen go	D3
Across the gate she jumped him low	D3
To coax him to begin and feel	E3
His infant steps returning peel	E3
His mortal pride exposing fruit	F3
And off with hat and apron suit	F3
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XXIX	U
	-
We need much patience well she knew	U
And out and out and through and through	U
When we would gentlefolk address	U
However we may seek to bless	U
At times they hide them like the beasts	U
From sacred beams and mostly priests	U
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XXX	U
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He gave no sign of making bare	E
Nor she of faintness or despair	E
Inflamed with hope that she might win	J2
If she but coaxed him to begin	J2
She used all arts for making fain	B
The mother with her babe was Jane	B
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XXXI	U
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Now stamped the Squire and knowing not	S
Her business waved her from the spot	S
Encircled by the men of might	F
The head of Jane like flickering light	F
As in a charger they beheld	F
Ere she was from the park expelled	F
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XXXII	U
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Her grief in jumps of earthly weight	F
Did Jane around communicate	F
For that the moment when began	G3
The holy but mistaken man	G3
In view of light to take his lift	F
They cut him from her charm adrift	F
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XXXIII	U
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And he was lost a banished face	U
For ever from the ways of grace	U
Unless pinched hard by dreams in fright	F
They saw the Bishop's wavering sprite	F
Within her look at come and go	D3
Long after he had caused her woe	D3
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XXXIV	-
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Her greying eyes until she sank	H3
At Fredsham on the wayside bank	H3
Like cinder heaps that whitened lie	-
From coals that shot the flame to sky	-
Had glassy vacancies which yearned	F
For one in memory discerned	F
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XXXV	-
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May those who ply the tongue that cheats	U
And those who rush to beer and meats	U
And those whose mean ambition aims	U
At palaces and titled names	U
Depart in such a cheerful strain	B
As did our Jump to glory Jane	B
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XXXVI	-
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Her end was beautiful one sigh	-
She jumped a foot when it was nigh	-
A lily in a linen clout	F
She looked when they had laid her out	F
It is	U