Warwick
10-30-2009, 11:41 AM
How merciless these hands of death
I know of three to tell
Curtailed the lives of Riding maids
Acton, Currer and Ellis Bell
Such feelings deep within them rose
And poured up on the page
Of Tenant or of Lowood School
And of Top Withens rage
Before consumption took its toll
They wrote beyond compare
The burning love of Emily
And Charlotte’s sweet Jane Eyre
Now travellers north to Haworth troop
To halt and see the site
And wander where the sisters did
Alone on Wuthering Heights
I know of three to tell
Curtailed the lives of Riding maids
Acton, Currer and Ellis Bell
Such feelings deep within them rose
And poured up on the page
Of Tenant or of Lowood School
And of Top Withens rage
Before consumption took its toll
They wrote beyond compare
The burning love of Emily
And Charlotte’s sweet Jane Eyre
Now travellers north to Haworth troop
To halt and see the site
And wander where the sisters did
Alone on Wuthering Heights