Lady Argyle - The Stanfields

The yoke of pride, so many times

Has fallen on the best of us

The yoke of pride, so many times

Has burdened us who dwell in charity

Why, you ask, not break the chains?

T’is hard enough contending with

The downward eyes of passer-bys

No hearth, no home, no love, no dignity

Lo, yet one more decry

From an infamous throne such as mine

Vile and stable

In a wondrous and slow decline

The rain still must fall

On a wanderer of such likeness.

Fortune is a beggars bane

Yet the stain blights us all

More so who thus deny it.

Fortune is a beggars bane

Now I’m a rogue in your eyes

But I once was a yeoman who shined

With a place at the table

With laymen and lords alike

Now I find myself in the mire

Of a world still unfolding itself

Vile and stable

In a wondrous and slow decline