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First Line: There was a lad as cold ice
Last Line: Or take a drink, or change their mind. . . .)
Alternate Author Name(s): Wolf, Robert Leopold, Mrs.
Subject(s): Gypsies; Love Affairs; Lust; Gipsies


There was a lad as cold ice;
He was my lover -- twice.

(Don't ask me more; it isn't nice.)
Cruel cold, or I wouldn't be
Counting them up now. Listen to me.

There was a fellow once -- I hoped . . .
He and another girl eloped.

A certain lad had let me think:
He went away and took a drink.

Then came a poet suave as oil --
But I was much too giddy to spoil.

There was a man with a bold black beard,
But he was nothing to be feared. . . .

Yet there have been, and there will be,
One or two or even three
Could make a wanton girl of me:
(A wanton girl is hard to find
When so many men are dull or blind,
Or take a drink, or change their mind. . . .)





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