Lapsus Calami (Apr 1891)/To T. A.

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Dated 1890, "To T. A." was first published in the "Circuit Songs" section of the first edition of Lapsus Calami. It was dropped from the third edition and never reinstated.

1799177Lapsus Calami — To T. A.James Kenneth Stephen

To T. A.

(Air: Barbara Allen.)

In Pembrokeshire where I was bornWere many maidens dwelling,But all of them were quite forlornFor love of Thomas Allen.

All in the merry month of May,When green buds they were swelling,Some twenty-six on their death-beds lay,For love of Thomas Allen.

Then slowly slowly Tom rode round,And one by one did eye 'em;But all that Tom could find to sayWas:—These poor girls are dying.

And so in course of time they died,And all of them were buried,Excepting one, and she survived,And that one Thomas married.