English Folk Song

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    “It is an equal failing to trust everybody, and to trust nobody.”
    —18th-century English proverb.

    “An’ when the earth’s as cauld’s the mune
    An’ a’ its folk are lang syne deid,
    On coontless stars the Babe maun cry
    An’ the Crucified maun bleed.”
    —Hugh MacDiarmid (1892–1978)

    “Come dame or maid, be not afraid,
    Poor Tom will injure nothing.”
    —Unknown. Tom o’ Bedlam’s Song (l. 11–12)