Your Lot Is Far Above Me

DESCRIPTION: "Your lot is far above me, I dare not be your bride, To know that you have loved me Will wound your father's pride." She tells him to woo "some high-born lady." They will not meet again. She wishes she had not known his kindness
AUTHOR: Thomas Haynes Bayly (source: "Songs, Ballads, and Other Poems")
EARLIEST DATE: 1837 (The American Minstrel, according to Jackson-EarlySongsOfUncleSam)
KEYWORDS: love separation rejection father | class
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REFERENCES (2 citations):
Jackson-EarlySongsOfUncleSam, p. 146, "Your Lot Is Far Above Me" (1 text)
ADDITIONAL: Thomas Haynes Bayly (with Helena Beecher Hayes Bayly), _Songs, Ballads, and Other Poems: With a Memorial by His Widow_, R. Bentley, 1844 (available on Google Books and the Internet Archive), p. 197, "Your Lot Is Far Above Me" (1 text)
Roud #13828
File: JESU146

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