'Tis hard to give the hand where the heart can never be.
[Dundee?] : Poet's Box,
[1880-1900?]
Dated from examination of text and style.
'New songs out every week'.
'This popular song can always be had at the Poet's Box'.
First line reads: Tho' I mingle in the throng / Of the happy and the gay, / From the mirth of dance and song / I would fain be far away; / For I love to use no wile, / And can but deem it sin, / That the brow should wear a smile / When the soul is sad within. / Tho' a parent's stern command / Claims obedience from me, / O, 'tis hard to give the hand / Where the heart can never be.
In one column.
Ballads, English