Edwin Ransford: In the Days when we went Gypsying.

Speak gently! 't is a little thing

Dropp'd in the heart's deep well;

The good, the joy, that it may bring

Eternity shall tell.

G. W. Langford: Speak gently.

Hope tells a flattering tale,[683:1]

Delusive, vain, and hollow.

Ah! let not hope prevail,

Lest disappointment follow.