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Rh And brought water, and filled a tub for his sweated
 * body and bruised feet,

And gave him a room that entered from my own, and
 * gave him some coarse clean clothes,

And remember perfectly well his revolving eyes and
 * his awkwardness,

And remember putting plasters on the galls of his
 * neck and ankles;

He staid with me a week before he was recuperated
 * and passed north,

I had him sit next me at table—my fire-lock leaned
 * in the corner.

Twenty-eight young men bathe by the shore, Twenty-eight young men, and all so friendly; Twenty-eight years of womanly life, and all so
 * lonesome.

She owns the fine house by the rise of the bank, She hides, handsome and richly drest, aft the blinds
 * of the window.

Which of the young men does she like the best? Ah, the homeliest of them is beautiful to her.

Where are you off to, lady? for I see you, You splash in the water there, yet stay stock still in
 * your room.

Dancing and laughing along the beach came
 * the twenty-ninth bather,

The rest did not see her, but she saw them and loved
 * them.