"If I'm a beggar born," she said
"I will speak out, for I dare not lie,
Pull off, pull off the brooch of gold,
And fling the diamond necklace by." "Nay now, my child," said Alice the nurse,
"But keep the secret all you can."
She said, "Not so; but I will know
If there be any faith in man".


Lady Clare (1842)


If I'm a beggar born, she said I will speak out, for I dare not lie, Pull off, pull off the brooch of gold, And fling the diamond necklace by. Nay...

If I'm a beggar born, she said I will speak out, for I dare not lie, Pull off, pull off the brooch of gold, And fling the diamond necklace by. Nay...

If I'm a beggar born, she said I will speak out, for I dare not lie, Pull off, pull off the brooch of gold, And fling the diamond necklace by. Nay...

If I'm a beggar born, she said I will speak out, for I dare not lie, Pull off, pull off the brooch of gold, And fling the diamond necklace by. Nay...