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,