THE GIPSY GIRLBy Ralph Hodgson“COME, try your skill, kind gentlemen,A penny for three tries!

”Some threw and lost, some threw and wonA ten-a-penny prize.

She was a tawny gipsy girl,A girl of twenty years,I liked her for the lumps of goldThat jingled from her ears;I liked the flaring yellow scarfBound loose around her throat,I liked her showy purple gownAnd flashy velvet coat.

A man came up, too loose of tongue,And said no good to her;She did not blush as Saxons do,Or turn upon the cur;She fawned and whined “Sweet gentleman,A penny for three tries!

”—But oh, the den of wild things inThe darkness of her eyes!

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