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Rh Said one: 'I am an outcast's child,

And such I came on earth.

If me ye blame, for this my shame,

Whom blame ye for my birth?'

The third she sank a sin-blotched face

And prayed that she might rest,

In the weary flow of the stream below,

As on her mother's breast.

Now past there came a godly man,

Of goodly stock and blood,

And as he passed one frown he cast

At that sad sisterhood.

Sorely it grieved that godly man,

To see so foul a sight,

He turned his face, and strode apace,

And left them to the night.