Poems by Jean Ingelow, In Two Volumes, Volume II. by Jean Ingelow
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_Vicar_. You hear them, Sam. You needs must play again, Your neighbours ask it. _Fiddler_. Thank ye, neighbours all, I have my feelings though I be but poor; I've tanged the fiddle here this forty year, And I should know the trick on 't. _The fiddler plays, and his daughter sings_. For Exmoor-- For Exmoor, where the red deer run, my weary heart doth cry. She that will a rover wed, far her foot shall his. Narrow, narrow, shows the street, dull the narrow sky. _(Buy my cherries, whiteheart cherries, good my masters_, _buy_.) For Exmoor-- O he left me, left alone, aye to think and sigh, 'Lambs feed down yon sunny coombe, hind and yearling shy, Mid the shrouding vapours walk now like ghosts on high.' (_Buy my cherries, blackheart cherries, lads and lassies, buy_.) For Exmoor-- Dear my dear, why did ye so? Evil days have I, |
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