Charles Moreton, The Maid and the Magpie
“ The guilty do not dare, 59 Before the sun, with bended knee, They sank with awful fear; With praises to their Lord’s decree, They sought their cottage cheer.60 Her Father, he now met their view, Past cares they all defied; The maid was spar’d, her virtue too, The Magpie ’twas that died. Verse 60 FINIS. L. H. Cox, Printer, 17, Black Friars Road. ”
Charles Moreton, The Maid and the Magpie
“ A wretch to feelings blind; He view’d the guest, and saw him poor, And therefore prov’d unkind. 18 What wretched man is that I see In garb so sad and torn? A weary traveller, said she, Who wanders here forlorn. ”
Charles Moreton, The Maid and the Magpie
“ Borne on the buoyant air; Nor ever thought that as he fled, Annette his guilt would bear. Verse 32 15 Look up my child and view me here, One lost to all his clan; My enemies, alas! are near, To claim a wretched man. ”
