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ONE day as I came down by Jarrow	A
Engirt by a crowd on a stone	B
A woman sat moaning and sorrow	A
Seized all who took heed to her moan	B
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'Nay blame not my sad lamentation	B
But oh let ' she said 'my tears flow	A
Nay offer me no consolation	B
I know they are dead down below	A
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'I heard the dread blast and I darted	C
Away on the road to the pit	D
Nor stopped till my senses departed	E
And left me the wretch I here sit	D
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'Ah thus let me sit ' so entreated	D
She those who had had her way	F
Then yet on the hard granite seated	D
Resumed her lament and did say	F
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'My mother poor body would harry	A
Me oft with a look sad and pale	G
When I had determined to marry	A
The dimple chin'd lad of the dale	G
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'Not that she had any objection	B
To one praised by each and by all	H
But ay his lot caused a reflection	B
That still still her bosom would gall	H
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'Nay blame not my sad lamentation	B
My mother sleeps under the yew	I
She views not the dire desolation	B
She dreaded one day I should view	I
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'Bedabbled with blood are my tresses	J
No matter Unlock not my hand	D
When first I enjoyed his caresses	J
Their hue would his praises command	D
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'He'll never praise more locks nor features	K
Nor when the long day tide is o'er	A
With me view our two happy creatures	K
With bat and with ball at the door	A
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'Nay chide not A pair either bolder	A
Or better nobody could see	A
They passed for a year or two older	A
Than what I could prove them to be	A
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'Their equals for courage and action	B
Were not to be found in the place	L
And others might boast of attraction	B
But none had their colour or grace	L
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'Their feelings were such tho' when	B
smitten	B
By scorn oft their blood would rebel	M
They wept for the little blind kitten	B
Our neighbour did drown in the well	N
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'The same peaceful calm and brave	O
bearing	P
Had still been the father's was theirs	Q
And now we felt older a wearing	P
We deemed they'd soon lighten our cares	Q
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'So deemed I last night On his shoulder	A
I hung and beheld them at play	F
I dreamed not how soon they must moulder	A
Down down in their cold bed of clay	F
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'Ah chide not This sad lamentation	B
But endeth the burden began	B
When to the whole dale's consternation	B
Our second was crushed by the van	B
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'That dark day the words of my mother	A
In all the deep tone which had made	D
Me like a wind ridden leaf dother	A
Rang like the dead bell in my head	D
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'Despair the grim bird away chidden	B
Would light on the house top again	B
But still from my husband was hidden	B
Each thought that had put him to pain	B
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'He's pass's from existence unharried	D
By any forebodings of mine	B
Nor till we the lisper had buried	D
E'er pined he But then he did pine	B
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'Adown when the shadow had falling	P
Across the long row gable end	D
He miss'd him as home from his calling	P
With thrice weary bones he would wend	D
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'No more would his heavy step lighten	B
No more would his hazel eyes glow	A
No more would his smutty face brighten	B
At sight of the darling Ah no	A
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'He lived by my bodings unharried	D
But when from his vision and mine	B
Away the sweet lisper was carried	D
He pined and long after would pine	B
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'Ay truly And reason The sonsy	Q
The bairn with his hair bright and curled	D
He still had appeared to our fancy	Q
The bonniest bairn in the world	D
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'As ruddy was he as a cherry	Q
With dimple on chin and on cheek	R
And never another as merry	Q
Was seen to play hide and go seek	R
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'He yet with his fun and affection	B
His canny bit pranks and his grace	Q
He wheedled my heart from dejection	B
And put a bright look on my face	Q
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'Full oft upon one leg advancing	P
Across to the door he would go	A
Wheel round on his heel then go dancing	P
With hop after hop down the row	A
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'When Let my hand go When he	Q
perish'd	D
The rest were a balm to my woe	A
But now what remains to be cherish'd	D
But now what remains to me now	B
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'Barely cold was the pet ere affected	D
By fever they lay one and all	H
But lay not like others neglected	D
I slept not to be at their call	H
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'Day and night night and day without	D
slumber	A
I watched till a weary and worn	B
When Death took the gem of the number	A
I'd barely strength left me to mourn	B
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'I've mourn'd enough since And tho' cruel	M
Mishap like a cursed hag would find	D
Her way to my door still the jewel	M
Has seldom been out of my mind	D
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'Another so light and so airy	Q
Ne'er gladden'd a fond mother's sight	D
I oft heard her called a wee fairy	Q
And heard her so called with delight	D
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'Whilst others played by me she tarried	D
The cherub and rumour avers	Q
That now a days many are married	D
With not half the sense that was hers	Q
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'A down on the hearth rug a sitting	P
The long winter nights she was heard	D
The while her sweet fingers were knitting	P
To lilt out her lay like a bird	D
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'Did I appear cross To me stealing	P
Askance in my face she would keek	P
At which e'er the victim of feeling	P
I could not but pat her bit check	P
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'She once when I'd pricked this hard finger	A
No he who in grave clothes first slept	D
No she with the senses that linger	A
I cannot tell which of them wept	D
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'She vanished at last Ah an ocean	B
Of trouble appeared that black cup	S
But what was it all to the potion	B
I now am commanded to sup	S
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'My husband my bairnies my blossoms	Q
Well well I am wicked yes yes	Q
But take my loss home to your bosoms	Q
And say if your sin would be less	Q
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'My husband my bairnies my blossoms	Q
Well well I'll not murmur but still	T
The anguish that teareth the bosom's	Q
Not not to be bridled at will	T
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'The dear ones to perish so sudden	B
'Twas only last night by the hearth	U
While I sat and mended their dudden	B
The bairnies were giddy with mirth	V
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'Their cousin came in and they hasten'd	D
To hand her and handing the chair	A
The strings of her apron unfastened	D
And slipt the back comb from her hair	A
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'On leaving the lassie discovered	D
The prank they upon her had play'd	D
Awhile hung her head awhile hover'd	D
Then pinched both their noses and fled	D
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'They laugh'd clapt their hands and the	W
father	A
Yea I too had laugh's with the rest	D
But something came o'er me which rather	A
Brought sorrow than joy to my breast	D
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'The dear ones to perish so sudden	B
Last night of all nights by the hearth	U
While I was a mending their dudden	B
Why felt I no joy in their mirth '	-
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'The supper was set and being over	A
I help'd them to bed and I think	P
Once curl'd up beneath the green cover	A
They dover'd to sleep in a wink	P
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'I too laid me down heart a weary	Q
And when the birds rose from their bed	D
Somehow by a dream dull and dreary	Q
My eyes were fast lock's in my head	D
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'Aroused by their voices and yearning	P
To kiss them I sprang to the floor	A
They kissed me and bade me 'good	D
morning '	-
Then whistled away from the door	A
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'Long after away they had hurried	D
Their music a rang in my ears	Q
Then thought I of those we had buried	D
And thought of the jewels with tears	Q
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'Then thought I What said I Thus	Q
thinking	P
Was I when rat tat went the pane	B
And back into sense again shrinking	P
I into bed stumbled again	B
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'Did I sleep I did weep To his calling	P
The father had gone hours before	A
And now in that havoc appalling	P
He lies with the blossoms I bore	A
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'Did I sleep I did weep Heart a weary	Q
How oft have I so wept before	A
I wept and to weep lone and dreary	Q
I've wandered the broken brick floor	A
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'Did I sleep Well your kind arm and	D
stead	D