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Anne Evans: Poems and Music

With Memorial Preface by Anne Thackeray Ritchie
Evans, Anne (1820-1870)

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34

PERADVENTURE!

I

My love he's gone to London town;
Hey, ho, and who should say him nay?
Wait a year, and he'll come down
Twice as rich as he went away,—
With a peradventure, hey, with a peradventure...

II

My love he's gone to London town;
Hey, ho, I'll bear it as I may!
Wait a year, and he'll come down
All as true as he went away,—
With a peradventure, hey, with a peradventure...
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