Charles Dickens and Music

Chapter 11

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'Thrown on the wide world, doomed to wander and roam.' From 'The Peasant Boy'

_J. Parry_

Thrown on the wide world, doom'd to wander and roam, Bereft of his parents, bereft of his home, A stranger to pleasure, to comfort and joy, Behold little Edmund, the poor Peasant Boy.