Has your 'Pa' been unkind? (since no 'Ma' you have got),
Or a lover appeared when you'd rather he'd not?
Are you ill, or unhappy, or is't for a freak
That your godmother's presence you suddenly seek?"
Ophelia listened with respectful attention whilst the old woman uttered these words, and then replied in a low, sweet voice:—
"Did I not deem the crisis grave
I had not called thee from thy wave:
And if in doing so I err,
Forgive me, gracious godmother!
My father knows thee not, great dame;