To take revenge on a trifle overlooked,

A pet lamb they have left in reach outside,

Whose first bleat, when he plucks the wool away,

Will strike the grinners grave: his wife remains,

Who, four months earlier, some thirteen years old,

Never a mile away from mother's house

And petted to the height of her desire,

Was told one morning that her fate had come,

She must be married—just as, a month before,

Her mother told her she must comb her hair