| Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). A Victorian Anthology, 1837–1895. 1895. |
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| Lorraine |
| | | Charles Kingsley (1819–75) |
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| “ARE you ready for your steeplechase, Lorraine, Lorraine, Lorrèe? | |
| Barum, Barum, Barum, Barum, Barum, Barum, Baree. | |
| You’re booked to ride your capping race to-day at Coulterlee, | |
| You’re booked to ride Vindictive, for all the world to see, | |
| To keep him straight, and keep him first, and win the run for me.” | 5 |
| Barum, Barum, Barum, Barum, Barum, Barum, Baree. | |
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| She clasp’d her newborn baby, poor Lorraine, Lorraine, Lorrèe, | |
| Barum, Barum, Barum, Barum, Barum, Barum, Baree. | |
| “I cannot ride Vindictive, as any man might see, | |
| And I will not ride Vindictive, with this baby on my knee; | 10 |
| He ’s kill’d a boy, he ’s kill’d a man, and why must he kill me?” | |
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| “Unless you ride Vindictive, Lorraine, Lorraine, Lorrèe, | |
| Unless you ride Vindictive to-day at Coulterlee, | |
| And land him safe across the brook, and win the blank for me, | |
| It ’s you may keep your baby, for you ’ll get no keep from me.” | 15 |
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| “That husbands could be cruel,” said Lorraine, Lorraine, Lorrèe, | |
| “That husbands could be cruel, I have known for seasons three; | |
| But oh, to ride Vindictive while a baby cries for me, | |
| And be kill’d across a fence at last for all the world to see!” | |
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| She master’d young Vindictive—O, the gallant lass was she! | 20 |
| And kept him straight and won the race as near as near could be; | |
| But he kill’d her at the brook against a pollard willow tree; | |
| Oh! he kill’d her at the brook, the brute, for all the world to see, | |
| And no one but the baby cried for poor Lorraine, Lorrèe. | |
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