A Ballad
THERE ’s a legend that ’s told of a gypsy who dwelt
  In the lands where the pyramids be;
And her robe was embroidered with stars, and her belt
  With devices right wondrous to see;
And she lived in the days when our Lord was a child
  On his mother’s immaculate breast;
When he fled from his foes,—when to Egypt exiled,
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