Poems by Jean Ingelow, In Two Volumes, Volume II.
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Chapter 48 No.48

Few words are best.

He, once King Sigismund, saith few,

But makes good diligence and true.

Soon with the gold he gather'd so,

A little homestead lone and low

He buyeth: a field, a copse, with these

A melon patch and mulberry trees.

And is the man content? Nay, morn

Is toilsome, oft is noon forlorn,

Though right be done an

            
            

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