TABITHA dressed for her wedding: -- "Tabby, why look so sad?" "-- O I feel a great gloominess spreading, spreading, Instead of supremely glad!. . . "I called on Carry last night, And he came whilst I was there, Not knowing I'd called. So I kept out of sight, And I heard what he said to her: "'-- Ah, I'd far liefer marry @3You,@1 Dear, to-morrow!' he said, 'But that cannot be.' -- O I'd give him to Carry, And willingly see them wed, "But how can I do it when His baby will soon be born? After that I hope I may die. And then She can have him. I shall not mourn!" |