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When Ruth was left half desolate / Her Father took another Mate; / And Ruth, not seven years old, / A slighted Child, at her own will / Went wandering over dale and hill, / In thoughtless freedom bold.
And she had made a Pipe of straw, / And from that oaten Pipe could draw / All sounds of winds and floods; / Had built a Bower upon the green, / As if she from her birth had been / An Infant of the woods.