Chapter 9

'Beside that cottage door, Mr. Boffin,' from 'The Soldier's Tear'

_Alexander Lee_

Beside that cottage porch A girl was on her knees; She held aloft a snowy scarf Which fluttered in the breeze. She breath'd a prayer for him, A prayer he could not hear; But he paused to bless her as she knelt, And wip'd away a tear.