Alexander Lee
Beside that cottage porch
A girl was on her knees;
She held aloft a snowy scarf
Which fluttered in the breeze.
She breath'd a prayer for him,
A prayer he could not hear;
But he paused to bless her as she knelt,
And wip'd away a tear.
Book I, Ch. 15.
The gay, the gay and festive scene,
I'll tell thee how the maiden wept, Mrs. Boffin.
From ‘The Light Guitar.’ (See [Index of Songs].)
Book I, Ch. 15.
‘Thrown on the wide world, doomed to wander and roam.’ From ‘The Peasant Boy’
J. Parry
Thrown on the wide world, doom'd to wander and roam,
Bereft of his parents, bereft of his home,
A stranger to pleasure, to comfort and joy,
Behold little Edmund, the poor Peasant Boy.