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140 AMERICAN BALLADS AND SONGS
The crowd beneath all gazed with bated breath; They turned away their faces; there was many a stifled
groan When she jumped to meet perhaps as hard a death.
A boy stood in a window and his mother was below;
She saw him, and the danger drawing near;
With hands upraised to pray for him she knelt down
in the snow, And the stoutest men could not restrain a tear. She madly rushed toward the fire and wildly tore her
hair • "Take me, 0 God, but spare my pride, my joy." She saw the flames surround him and then in dark
despair Said, "God have mercy on my only son." |
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63 THE FATAL WEDDING
The wedding bells were ringing
On a moonlight winter's night; The church was decorated,
All within was gay and bright. A mother with her baby
Came and saw the light aglow. She thought of how those same bells chimed
For her three years ago. |
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