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A poor man stood beside his door, / His sad fate for to deplore, / For landlord's heart would not relent, / And seized his furniture for rent.
He hears song sweet as from fairy, / And soon he sees a canary, / Into his cage it did alight / And poured forth notes sweet and bright.
But owner of the bird did mourn, / And sadly longed for its return, / Without it she found no delight, / So she did landlord's bill requite.
The poor man thinks the bird was sent / By the Lord to pay up his rent, / And he now stout maintains from thence / That there is a kind Providence.