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"This very morn our landlord came,
And sternly bade me pay;
I told him all, and begged he'd wait
A little longer day.
"'Wait longer? No, indeed I wont;
Too long I have waited now;
So pay, or you'll march out of doors,
And I shall take your cow.'"
The widow wept, and then she said,
"I am willing to be poor,—
But yet to lose my only cow
Seems too much to endure."
CHARLES.
Here, take this money, ma, and pay
As far as it will go;
I had rather never have a sword
Than she should suffer so.
EMMA AND ANN.
And ours, mamma; do take it all,
To pay that cruel man;
And pray make haste before he comes
To frighten them again.
MOTHER.
Come to my arms, my precious ones,
I only meant to see
