The Fire Within

By Patricia Wentworth (Mrs. G. F. Dillon) Author of “A Marriage under the Terror,” etc.
“ Quench thou the fires of your old gods, Quench not the fire within. ” Matthew Arnold.
G. P. Putnam’s Sons New York and London The Knickerbocker Press 1913
Copyright, 1913 by G. P. PUTNAM’S SONS
The Knickerbocker Press, New York
As I was going adown the dale
Sing derry down dale, and derry down dale,
As I was going adown the dale,
Adown the dale of a Monday,
With never a thought of the Devil his tricks,
Why who should I meet with his bundle of sticks,
But the very old man of the Nursery tale.