Poetic Jewels. the Athenæum Collection of the World's Choicest Poetry
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But I'm so tired and sad. POETIC JEWELS , 131 I'm glad it was a boy, sir, very glad, A man can fight along, can say his say, Is not looked down upon, holds up his head, And at a push can always earn his bread; Men have the best of it, in many a way. But ah! 'tis hard indeed for girls to keep Decent and honest, tramping in a town, Their best but bad — made light of — beaten down, Forever wearying, wearying for sleep. If they grow hard, go wrong, from bad to badder, Why, Parson dear, they're happ...ier being blind: They get no thanks for being good and kind — The better that they are, they feel the sadder! Nineteen! Nineteen! Only nineteen, and yet so old, so old; — I feel like fifty, Parson — I have been So wicked, I suppose, and life's so cold! Ah, cruel are the wind and rain and snow. And I've been out for years among them all: I scarce remember being w^eak and small Like Baby there — it was so long ago. It does not seem that I was born, but woke One day in a dark room High up among the smoke, And trembling at the roaring of the gloom That hung around me (for you could not see The people from our window — only stone — Deep walls, black pits, and lanes — tho' drearily You heard the deep streets groan); And I was all alone, and looking out.
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