Rewards and Fairies - Penn State University
Rewards and Fairies - Penn State University
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<strong>Rewards</strong> <strong>and</strong> <strong>Fairies</strong><br />
Queen Bess was Harry’s daughter. Now turn your partners all!<br />
The Queen was in her chamber, a-weeping very sore,<br />
There came Lord Leicester’s spirit <strong>and</strong> it scratched upon the door,<br />
Singing, ‘Backwards <strong>and</strong> forwards <strong>and</strong> sideways may you pass,<br />
But I will walk beside you till you face the looking-glass.<br />
The cruel looking-glass that will never show a lass<br />
As hard <strong>and</strong> unforgiving or as wicked as you was!’<br />
Queen Bess was Harry’s daughter. Now kiss your partners all !<br />
The Queen was in her chamber; her sins were on her head;<br />
She looked the spirits up <strong>and</strong> down <strong>and</strong> statelily she said:<br />
‘Backwards <strong>and</strong> forwards <strong>and</strong> sideways though I’ve been,<br />
Yet I am Harry’s daughter <strong>and</strong> I am Engl<strong>and</strong>’s Queen!’<br />
And she faced the looking-glass (<strong>and</strong> whatever else there was),<br />
And she saw her day was over <strong>and</strong> she saw her beauty pass<br />
In the cruel looking-glass that can always hurt a lass<br />
More hard than any ghost there is or any man there was!<br />
36<br />
THE WRONG THING<br />
A Truthful Song<br />
THE BRICKLAYER:<br />
I tell this tale, which is strictly true,<br />
Just by way of convincing you<br />
How very little since things were made<br />
Things have altered in the building trade.<br />
A year ago, come the middle o’ March,<br />
We was building flats near the Marble Arch,<br />
When a thin young man with coal-black hair<br />
Came up to watch us working there.<br />
Now there wasn’t a trick in brick or stone<br />
That this young man hadn’t seen or known;<br />
Nor there wasn’t a tool from trowel to maul<br />
But this young man could use ‘em all!<br />
Then up <strong>and</strong> spoke the plumbyers bold,<br />
Which was laying the pipes for the hot <strong>and</strong> cold: