THE THORN.
Approac where.
X.
quot;But ain-top
quot;Can this unhappy woman go,
quot;ever star is in the skies,
quot;ever ;
Nay rack your brain--tis all in vain,
Ill tell you every thing I know;
But to to the pond
tle step beyond,
I wis you would go:
Per the place
You sometale may trace.
XI.
Ill give you t help I can:
Before you up tain go,
Up to tain-top,
Ill tell you all I know.
tis noy years,
Since sha Ray)
Gave rue good will
o Stephen hill;
And she and gay,
And sill
of Stephen hill.
XII.
And the wedding-day,
t must h;
But Stepo another maid
h;
And o church
Untep--
Poor Mart woful day
A cruel, cruel ?re, they say,
Into :
It dried her body like a cinder,
And almost turnd o tinder.
XIII.
ter this,
the summer-leaves were green,
So tain-top would go,
And ten seen.
tis said, a child was in her womb,
As noo any eye was plain;
Sh child, and she was mad,
Yet often she was sober sad
From her exceeding pain.
Oen times Id rather
t cruel father!
XIV.
Sad case for suco hold
Communion irring child!
Sad case, as you may think, for one
ho had a brain so wild!
Last Cmas his,
Old Farmer Simpson did maintain,
t in