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That stately cliesnut oft would show 

 How she could pace it down the row. 

 While fair- haired Freke could sit her so. 

 Unlike a Banished Maid. 



Still, virtue triumphant will prevail^ 

 Thoug-h Gentle Will would join our bail, 

 And ask, are there no cakes and ale 



E'en for a Banished Maid ? 



Irate, old Christmas strikes the ground, 

 Quick ! in an iron grasp 'tis bound, 

 And lost is life with Horse and Hound, 



When lost the Banished Maid. 



[The long and severe frost of January, 1861, foUowed immediately on 

 the enforcement of this edict. ] 



