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I. Lovely Brookland! Peaceful Village,
Save her father . For he praised her , Liked and understood each whim
Of her fancy , and the poison Showed not at the cup ' s sweet brim .
* Twas again the old , old story ! Amy Harman went one day
To the woodsand ere the gloaming , , With the stranger went away .
Michael and his friends that evening Searched the country miles around ,
But came back with the sad tidings , Amy could no where be found .
" Comeback ! comeback ! Amy ! Amy !" Cried old Michael wild with fear ;
" Do not leave your poor old father , Amy darling ! Amy dear !
You were all I had in this world , Now you ' re gone there seems no light
In my cottage . " Michael Harman Lost his senses from that night .
But no tidings came of Amy , No one knew where she had gone .
Grossips said that Little Fairy Had not left the place alone .
Michael Harman , senseless , lingered For a yearthen died ; and save
, By poor Harry , Little Fairy Was thought of as in the grave .
III . Peacefully ten years passed over
Brooklandwhich looked as of yore ; , Happily to many people , *
Woefully to many more . Peacefully to most in Brookland ,
Where few now recalled the day Amy left them—few but Harry ,
Who still mourned for her away . It was Christmas eve ; and cheerful
Looked the village homes that night , Full of happy , smiling faces ,
Decked with sprigs of holly bright ; Still more cheerful when contrasted
With the frozen-over ground , And the snow which falling thickly ,
English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Aug. 1, 1864, page 413, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01081864/page/53/