anon, The Factor's Garland (1800)
“ And under the earth the dead carcase was laid. When having gone further, by chance he did spy, A beautiful creature just going to die, A young waiting maid who strangled must be, For nothing but striking a Turkish lady. To think of her dying with grief he was fill'd, Then rivers of tears, like waters distill'd, Like streams of a fountain, from her eyes ran down Her red rosy cheeks, and from that to the ground. ”
anon, The Factor's Garland (1800)
“ Friend, how cam'st thou hither? with eyes that did flow He told him the secret, and where he would go. That old man said to him, if here thou dost lie, With grief and hunger in a short thou wilt die, What wilt thou give if to that court I thee guide, I have nothing to give you the Factor replied. If thou wilt but promise, and be true to me. To give the first babe that is born unto thee, When thirty months old to that court I'll the bring, I will not release you without that very thing. ”
anon, The Factor's Garland (1800)
“ The babe's tender parents with tears in their eyes, With joy they embrac'd their darling young son, Saying, child had thou left us, we had been undone. Now we'll leave the court with joy and great mirth To love one another while God gives them breath, And now by this Factor we may see indeed No mortal can prevent what fate has decreed. FINIS. This work was published before January 1, 1929, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. ”
