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/ In Lavan's parish once of yore, / Dwelt on the spot called Tshei an Hor, / A loving couple, man and wife, / But poverty distressed their life. / And thus the man his wife address'd: / "I'll wander forth of work in quest; / And you, my dearest, you can earn / Your living here till I return."
His home he leaves, and, far from gay, / Towards the East he took his way. / At length a farmer's dwelling reaching, / He enter'd it, for work beseeching. / "What work canst do?" the farmer cried; / "All kinds of work, Sir," John replied. / Then straight they for a year agree, / Three pounds the wages were to be.