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TABITHA dressed for her wedding: - / "Tabby, why look so sad? " / "-O I feel a great gloominess spreading, spreading, / Instead of supremely glad! . . .
"I called on Carry last night, / And he came whilst I was there, / Not knowing I'd called. So I kept out of sight, / And I heard what he said to her:
"‘-Ah, I'd far liefer marry / _You_, Dear, to-morrow! ' he said, / ‘But that cannot be. '-O I'd give him to Carry, / And willingly see them wed,
"But how can I do it when / His baby will soon be born? / After that I hope I may die. And then / She can have him. I shall not mourn! "