From England sent us word
You had gone into some far countrie,
In grief and gloom he heard.
“For they that wronged you, to elude
Your wrath, defamed my child;
And you—ay, blush, Sir, as you should—
Believed, and were beguiled.
“To die but at your feet, she vowed
To roam the world; and we
Would both have sped and begged our bread,