Poems (Elgee, 1907)/The itinerant singing girl

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THE ITINERANT SINGING GIRL.
————FROM THE DANISH.————
FATHERLESS and motherless, no brothers have I,And all my little sisters in the cold grave lie;Wasted with hunger I saw them falling dead— Lonely and bitter are the tears I shed.
Friendless and loverless, I wander to and fro,Singing while my faint heart is breaking fast with woe,Smiling in my sorrow, and singing for my bread— Lonely and bitter are the tears I shed.
Harp clang and merry song by stranger door and board,None ask wherefore tremble my pale lips at each word;None care why the colour from my wan cheek has fled— Lonely and bitter are the tears I shed.
Smiling and singing still, tho' hunger, want, and woe,Freeze the young life-current in my veins as I go;Begging for my living, yet wishing I were dead— Lonely and bitter are the tears I shed.
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