Thomas Hood - THE CARELESSE NURSE MAYD



I Sawe a Mayd sitte on a Bank,

Beguiled by Wooer fayne and fond;

And whiles His flatterynge Vowes She drank,

Her Nurselynge slipt within a Pond!

All Even Tide they Talkde and Kist,

For She was fayre and He was Kinde;

The Sunne went down before She wist

Another Sonne had sett behinde!{64}

With angrie Hands and frownynge Browe,

That deemed Her owne the Urchine’s Sinne,

She pluckt Him out, but he was nowe

Past being whipt for fallynge in.

She then begins to wayle the Ladde

With Shrikes that Echo answerde round—

O! foolishe Mayd to be soe sadde

The Momente that her Care was drownd!



Thomas Hood

THE COMIC POEMS OF THOMAS HOOD