Ere the starry night came on.”
And the Unknown thus continued:
“They hev hed that gallows standin’
All the summer, and the people
Mostly git ther livin’ from it,
For they take ther turns in bein’
Mournful victims who hev stolen
Every one a lovely mewel;
And they always every evenin’
Hev the awful death-fire kindled,