The Shameless One

The Shameless One written by William Henry Davies

From "Forty New Poems", (1918)

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She comes to see her brother John,
She's with a man not met before;
To bring her brother's house to shame,
She comes a hundred miles and more.

And when her brother leaves his home,
She finds her sisters Maud and May;
She's drunk, and with another man,
And both her sisters hide away.

She'll follow them from place to place,
She'll find them yet, be sure of that;
And John will be a shivering dog
Before the eyes of a black cat.

The beggar-man has not more nits
Than she has sins, yet she'll not die:
The lightning, that would blind a child
A second time, has passed her by.

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