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Then the disorder seized her feet,
  And she will never walk again.

I chanced to be at Mr. Wright's
  That very day, when Jane came home;
Her brother took her in his arms,
  And brought her sobbing to the room.

Her mother tenderly enquired
  What made her weep. "Alas!" she cried,
"Why, mother, will you urge your child
  To seek for pleasure in a ride?

"At first, I looked with some delight
  On the sweet fields so green and gay,
When happy children passed along,
  As merry as the birds in May.

"They laughed, they jumped, they climbed the hedge,
  For flowers their pretty wreaths to twine,
And then they wandered through the fields,
  To gather blackberries from the vine.

"I wept, that with such joyous sports
  I never more could take a part;
Kind Peter saw how sad I felt,
  And tried to cheer my heavy heart.