StoryTitle("caps", "Barbara Allen's Cruelty") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "In Scarlet town, where I was born, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "There was a fair maid dwellin', ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Made every youth cry Well-a-way! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Her name was Barbara Allen. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "All in the merry month of May, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "When green buds they were swellin', ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Young Jemmy Grove on his death-bed lay, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "For love of Barbara Allen. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "He sent his man in to her then, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "To the town where she was dwellin',", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"O haste and come to my master dear, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "If your name be Barbara Allen.\" ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "So slowly, slowly rase she up, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And slowly she came nigh him, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And when she drew the curtain by—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2DQ", "", "\"Young man, I think you're dyin'.\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"O it's I am sick and very very sick, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And it's all for Barbara Allen.\" ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"O the better for me ye'se never be, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Tho' your heart's blood were a-spillin'!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"O dinna ye mind, young man,\" says she, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2DQ", "", "\"When the red wine ye were fillin', ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "That ye made the healths go round and round, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And slighted Barbara Allen?\" ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "He turn'd his face unto the wall,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And death was with him dealin': ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"Adieu, adieu, my dear friends all, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And be kind to Barbara Allen!\" ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "As she was walking o'er the fields, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "She heard the dead-bell knellin';", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And every jow the dead-bell gave ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Cried \"Woe to Barbara Allen.\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"O mother, mother, make my bed, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "O make it saft and narrow: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "My love has died for me to-day,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "I'll die for him to-morrow. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"Farewell,\" she said, \"ye virgins all, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And shun the fault I fell in: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Henceforth take warning by the fall ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Of cruel Barbara Allen.\"", "") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>