Songs and Lyrics By Joseph Skipsey. Collected and Revised |
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THE PETITION. |
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12. THE PETITION.
Dear critics, pray, what have I done
That thus you frown so? tell me truly?
“You've for your neck a halter spun,
In blaming of our race unduly!”
That thus you frown so? tell me truly?
“You've for your neck a halter spun,
In blaming of our race unduly!”
Don't hang me, pray!—Just praise my lay,
And I will swear the Muse but garbled
My sweet intent; and what was meant
Was not the blame the Gipsy warbled!
And I will swear the Muse but garbled
My sweet intent; and what was meant
Was not the blame the Gipsy warbled!
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