III

by Alfred, Lord Tennyson · (no date)
Published 01/07/1880
Part of The Spinster's Sweet-Arts

Sweet-arts! Molly belike may ’a lighted to-night upo’ one.

Sweet-arts! thanks to the Lord that I niver not listen’d to noän!

So I sits i’ my oän armchair wi’ my oän kettle theere o’ the hob,

An’ Tommy the fust, an’ Tommy the second, an’ Steevie an’ Rob.

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