I Walked In The Woods

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As I walked in the woods one evening of late,
A lass was deploring her hapless estate;
In a languishing posture, poor maid, she appears,
All swelled with her sighs and flushed with her tears;
She cried and she sobbed, and I found it was all
For a little of that which Harry gave Doll.

At last she broke out, wretched, she said,
"Will not youth come succour a languishing maid
With what he with ease and pleasure may give,
Without which, alas, poor I cannot live!
Shall I never leave sighing and crying and call
For a little of that which Harry gave Doll?

^"At first when I saw a young man in the place,
My color would fade and then flush in my face,
My breath it grew short and I shivered all o'er,
My breast never popped up and down so before,
I scarce knew for what, but now I find it was all
For a little of that which Harry gave Doll."

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