A Fisher-Wife.

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The soonest mended, nothing said; And help may rise from east or west; But my two hands are lumps of lead, My heart sits leaden in my breast. O north wind swoop not from the north, O south wind linger in the south, Oh come not raving raging forth, To bring my heart into my mouth; For I've a husband out at sea, Afloat on feeble planks of wood; He does not know what fear may be; I would have told him if I could. I would have locked him in my arms, I would have hid him in my heart; For oh! the waves are fraught with harms, And he and I so far apart.

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