How Cruel Are The Parents

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Title:     How Cruel Are The Parents
Author: Robert Burns [More Titles by Burns]

[Tune-"John Anderson, my jo."]

How cruel are the parents
Who riches only prize,
And to the wealthy booby
Poor Woman sacrifice!
Meanwhile, the hapless Daughter
Has but a choice of strife;
To shun a tyrant Father's hate-
Become a wretched Wife.

The ravening hawk pursuing,
The trembling dove thus flies,
To shun impelling ruin,
Awhile her pinions tries;
Till, of escape despairing,
No shelter or retreat,
She trusts the ruthless Falconer,
And drops beneath his feet.

-THE END-
's poem: How Cruel Are The Parents

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