Pictures in Prose And Verse: Or, Personal Recollections of the Late Janet ...
Pictures in Prose And Verse: Or, Personal Recollections of the Late Janet ...
John Young
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Had ne'er upon a bench sat down. So stout of heart, they scorned to lodge One thought aJdn to lenity, Nor from their posts one inch would budge For the sweet sake of charity. 'Twas winter, and the houseless poor, Methought must perish in the cold. When stood this Shylock bench before, Trembling, a widow poor and old. p Digitized byLnOOQlC 74 THE WIDOW — ^A TBUK TALE. Her sunken eye and puckered ckeek Deep impress bore of gnawing want, Nor less than seventy winters bleak Had made her locks so ba...re and scant. . Mean her attire, yet all so neat, E'en malice could not fail to see, Tho* 'fore this rigorous judgment iaeat, "No worthless slattern dame was she. But hush compassion, and be still, Nor thus the widow's cause support. Or thou may'st tread yon weary miU For open " disrespect of court." " How now !" with awful voice and mien. The quorum's Solomon out-bawls, *^ Think'st thou, old woman, we maintain Our markets, and our huckster's stalls, " For such as thee, who dare refuse, At our tax-farmer's just demand.
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