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126 Then up along the town she hies,

No wonder if her senses fail,

This piteous news so much it shock'd her,

She quite forgot to send the Doctor,

To comfort poor old Susan Gale.

And now she's high upon the down,

And she can see a mile of road,

"Oh cruel! I'm almost three-score;

"Such night as this was ne'er before,

"There's not a single soul abroad."

She listens, but she cannot hear

The foot of horse, the voice of man;

The streams with softest sound are flowing,

The grass you almost hear it growing,

You hear it now if e'er you can.