The Fight At Keeper's Pond

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Then last weekend some gypsy boys whilst starting out to play

Chanced upon two naked forms entwined amidst the hay.

For Tamsin loved the farmer's son more than her own sweet life

And Tom Oatley loved her back and vowed he'd take her for his wife.

When news of this encounter reached the ears of Gypsy Jack

The air rang with his curses, his countenance was black.

He swore a sacred oath that if it cost his own last breath

Tom Oatley would, like his cousin, be pummelled near to death.