But they were dead, and now remain’d not one.”
“Yes,” said an elder, who had paused intent
On days long past, “there was a sad event; -
One of these Booths - it was my mother’s tale -
Here left his lass, I know not where to sail:
She saw their parting, and observed the pain;
But never came th’ unhappy man again:”
“The ship was captured” - Allen meekly said,
“And what became of the forsaken maid?”
The woman answer’d: “I remember now,