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(_She_, _alone_)
I ROSE and went to Rou'tor Town / With gaiety and good heart, / And ardour for the start, / That morning ere the moon was down / That lit me off to Rou'tor Town / With gaiety and good heart.
When sojourn soon at Rou'tor Town / Wrote sorrows on my face, / I strove that none should trace / The pale and gray, once pink and brown, / When sojourn soon at Rou'tor Town / Wrote sorrows on my face.
The evil wrought at Rou'tor Town / On him I'd loved so true / I cannot tell anew: / But nought can quench, but nought can drown / The evil wrought at Rou'tor Town / On him I'd loved so true!