A St. Valentine's Day Tragedy

"Was ever a maiden so worried?     Ill admit I am partial to Jim,     For Jimmie has promised to wed me     When Im old enough to wed him."

"The Cowboy had a sterling heart,     The Maiden was from Boston,     The Rancher saw his wealth depart     The Steers were what he lost on."

"O wonderful! In sport we climbed the tree,     Eager and laughing, as in all our play,     To see the eggs where, in the nest, they lay,     Bu"

"The shades of night was fallin slow     As through New York a guy did go     And nail on evry barroom door     A card that this here motter b"

"Here morning in the ploughman's songs is met     Ere yet one footstep shows in all the sky,     And twilight in the east, a doubt as yet,     S"

"The Text is taken from Percy's Reliques (1765), vol. i. p. 71, 'given from two MS. copies, transmitted from Scotland.' Herd had a very similar bal"