Lose your life for to live your life

The way that you ought to do;

And when you are finished, your God and your wife

And the Gipsies’ll laugh at you!

Then you can rot in your burying-place

As the gipsy-vans come through ...

For it isn’t reason the Gorgio race

Should die as the Romany do.

A MADONNA OF THE TRENCHES

“Whatever a man of the sons of men