Away, just like a whiff of smoke,

That scuds before the autumn blast!


A second husbandman that morn,

Was quick astir, he fancied he

Did hear, a wailing in his barn,

A moan, as of the wild banshee!

He thought to catch the female sprite,

For truth, he was a festive scamp,

But got a sort of snub, when he,