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Hes Gone To England For A Wife

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He's gone to England for a wife     Among the ladies there;     And yet I know a lass he deemed     The rarest of the rare.     Hes gone to England for a wife;     And rich and proud is he.     But he was poor and toiled for bread     When first he courted me.     He said I was the best on earth;     He said I was his life;     And now he thinks of noble birth,     And seeks a lady wife!     He said for me alone hed toil     To win an honest fame;     But now no lass on southern soil     Is worthy of his name!     I think I see his lady bride,     A fair and faultless face,     And nothing in her heart beside     The empty pride of race.     And she will grace his gilded home,     The wife his gold shall buy;     But will she ever dream of him,     Or love as well as I?

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