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The Lawns were dry in Euston Park	A
Here Truth inspires my Tale	B
The lonely footpath still and dark	A
Led over Hill and Dale	B
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Footnote This Ballad is founded on a fact The circumstance occurred perhaps long before I was born but is still related by my Mother and some of the oldest inhabitants in that part of the country R B	C
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Benighted was an ancient Dame	D
And fearful haste she made	E
To gain the vale of Fakenham	D
And hail its Willow shade	E
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Her footsteps knew no idle stops	F
But follow'd faster still	G
And echo'd to the darksome Copse	F
That whisper'd on the Hill	G
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Where clam'rous Rooks yet scarcely hush'd	H
Bespoke a peopled shade	E
And many a wing the foliage brush'd	H
And hov'ring circuits made	E
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The dappled herd of grazing Deer	I
That sought the Shades by day	J
Now started from her path with fear	I
And gave the Stranger way	J
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Darker it grew and darker fears	F
Came o'er her troubled mind	K
When now a short quick step she hears	F
Come patting close behind	K
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She turn'd it stopt nought could she see	F
Upon the gloomy plain	L
But as she strove the Sprite to flee	F
She heard the same again	M
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Now terror seiz'd her quaking frame	D
For where the path was bare	N
The trotting Ghost kept on the same	D
She mutter'd many a pray'r	O
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Yet once again amidst her fright	P
She tried what sight could do	Q
When through the cheating glooms of night	P
A MONSTER stood in view	Q
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Regardless of whate'er she felt	R
It follow'd down the plain	L
She own'd her sins and down she knelt	R
And said her pray'rs again	M
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Then on she sped and Hope grew strong	S
The white park gate in view	Q
Which pushing hard so long it swung	T
That Ghost and all pass'd through	Q
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Loud fell the gate against the post	U
Her heart strings like to crack	V
For much she fear'd the grisly Ghost	U
Would leap upon her back	V
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Still on pat pat the Goblin went	W
As it had done before	X
Her strength and resolution spent	W
She fainted at the door	X
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Out came her Husband much surpris'd	Y
Out came her Daughter dear	I
Good natur'd Souls all unadvis'd	Y
Of what they had to fear	I
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The Candle's gleam pierc'd through the night	Y
Some short space o'er the green	Z
And there the little trotting Sprite	Y
Distinctly might be seen	Z
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An Ass's Foal had lost its Dam	D
Within the spacious Park	A
And simple as the playful Lamb	D
Had follow'd in the dark	A
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No Goblin he no imp of sin	A2
No crimes had ever known	B2
They took the shaggy stranger in	A2
And rear'd him as their own	B2
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His little hoofs would rattle round	Y
Upon the Cottage floor	X
The Matron learn'd to love the sound	Y
That frighten'd her before	X
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A favorite the Ghost became	D
And 'twas his fate to thrive	C2
And long he liv'd and spread his fame	D
And kept the joke alive	C2
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For many a laugh went through the Vale	B
And some conviction tod	Y
Each thought some other Goblin	A2
Perhaps was just as true	Q

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