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GYPSY CHEER by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR

First Line: A GYPSY WHOSE JOURNEYS AND VENTURES HAD FAILED
Last Line: THERE'S ALWAYS THE WIND ON THE HEATH AND THE SUN!'
Subject(s): GYPSIES; PAIN; GIPSIES; SUFFERING; MISERY;
A GYPSY whose journeys and ventures had failed,
Came wearily back to the Camp and bewailed
His losses, and flung himself down with the cry,
'There's nothing to live for! I'm ready to die!'

'Nay, Brother, what folly,' an old man replied,
'The round years are many; the good world is wide;
No welcome to death till the last day is done —
@3There's always the wind on the heath and the sun!'@1



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