Francis William Lauderdale Adams - A Visitor In The Camp

Francis William Lauderdale Adams - A Visitor In The Camp

To Mary Robinson br 'WHAT, are you lost, you pretty little lady? br This is no place for such sweet things as you. br Our bodies, rank with sweat, will make you sicken, br And, you'll observe, our lives are rank lives too.' br 'Oh no, I am not lost! Oh no, I've come here br (And I have brought my lute, see, in my hand) br To see you, and to sing of all you suffer br To the great World, and make it understand!' br 'Well, say! If one of those who'd robbed you thousands, br Dropped you a sixpence in the gutter where br You lay and rotted, would you call her angel, br For all her charming smile and dainty air?' br 'Oh no, I come not thus! Oh no, I've come here br With heart indignant, pity like a flame, br To try and help you!' — 'Pretty little lady, br It will be best you go back whence you came. br ' ‘Enthusiasms’ we have such little time for! br In our rude camp we drill the whole day long.


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