Doggerel 1- The Handsome Maid

The Handsome Maid

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There once was a maid so exciting

that all of the boys fell to fighting

to see who would be

the one she’d chance to see

when she gazed out her door in her nightie.

                                       (which she did every night.)

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The fetching young maid, fair and buxom,

went to her back door, as was custom,

to gather a basket

of produce, a task that

had been hers since she was a young’un.

                                      (not having a younger sibling to fob the task off on.)

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As soon as she stepped out she spied him—

a lad fair and trim, and beside him,

his lovely twin sister

who’d come with him unasked for

because she thought she’d better guide him.

                                      (he being a bit simple-minded, you see.)

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The handsome young maid said politely

“Is it you who’s been visiting nightly?

I’ve ne’er seen another

so fair; be my lover,

and together forever we might be.”

                                      (kinda fast, but that’s the way it is in ballads.)

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So she took the hand of the twin sister

and deeply and tenderly kissed her.

They lived happy together

for ever and ever

and all of the boys sorely missed her.

                                      (a nice twist, don’t you think?)

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— D.J. White