Gipsies
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he snow falls deep; the forest lies alone;The boy goes hasty for his load of brakes,Then thinks upon the fire and hurries back;The gipsy knocks his hands and tucks them up,And seeks his squalid camp, half hid in snow,Beneath the oak which breaks away the wind,And bushes close in snow-like hovel warm;There tainted mutton wastes upon the coals,And the half-wasted dog squats close and rubs,Then feels the heat too strong, and goes aloof;He watches well, but none a bit can spare,And vainly waits the morsel thrown away.Tis thus they live--a picture to the place,A quiet, pilfering, unprotected race.
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