He told a Tale of bitter woe,

His heart with pity swelling,

How the fair Lady pin’d and died,

And how her Ghost, at Christmas-tide—

Would wander,—near her dwelling.

He told her, how a lowly Dame

The Lady, lorn, befriended—

Who chang’d her own dear baby, dead,

And took the Lady’s in its stead—

And then—“Forgive her Heav’n!” He said,