“ By strangers their homes and their lands are held now:
Thy murder, Brown William, fills Mona with woe.
Great Scarlett, in wealth who dwelt down by the bay,
Must toil now with paupers for sixpence a-day ”

“ Belov’d of my heart, wherefore sorrowest thou so?
“Dost sorrow because thy fond father is dead,
Or dost sorrow because thou’rt no longer a maid?”
Belov’d of my heart, wherefore sorrowest thou so?
“I grieve not because my dear father is dead,
Nor sorrow I because that I am not a maid.”
Belov’d of my heart, wherefore sorrowest thou so?
“I grieve and I weep, and to grieve I have need,
I know but too well what for me is decreed.”
Belov’d of my heart, wherefore sorrowest thou so?
p. 14“For the bridge, the broad bridge, I sorrow much more,
For oh! my five sisters together fell o’er.” ”

“ Every kind of evil treatment such as no one can endure.”
When these words I heard him utter I was filled with bitter rage,
And forthwith made preparation with the warrior to engage.
“Hearken, Master Love,” I shouted, “from this spot stir not away,
You and I must have a battle, must engage in deadly fray;
p. 28That it may be known for certain which is strongest of us two.”
Then into the arena bounding there I stood in all men’s view,
In the midst of it expecting firm the onset of the foe,
Doubting not should he attack me him at once to overthrow. ”