Lover’s Lament (The Cruddling Swain)

"Wah-oo, Wah-oo!" She Cried

“Oooo-ah-ove me?” She wiffled

Oakeling his rumshuckle visage.

He shifty-simpered, voiding her yews

“Nay – another fair, I found,

No more I ove thee.” Off he trodded.


“Wah-ooh! Wah-ooh!” She cred,

“Tis’ slinky-mean, untrude?

Oh cheatster, cruddling swain!

Slighty, varpage and  heartmean!

Faithtrue, to you, was missel.”


The lady wipt many orbles

Lo long throo many lornish days,

But o’er time, she mazed

Perseed, at last, his wickling ways,

Cognized the lossage – His.

© Sept 2022, Katharine Summers, All Rights Reserved

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