A Golden Lot
A Golden Lot appears in the collections of 1871, 1886, 1888 and 1892. In Carols, Songs and Ballads (1888), it is the closing poem.
In the
coal-pit or the factory, I toil by night or day,And still to the music of labour I lilt my heart-felt lay – | I lilt my heart-felt lay; And the gloom of the deep, deep mine, Or the din of the factory dieth away, And a Golden Lot is mine. | And a Golden Lot is mine, Far from the deep, deep mine, Where the din of the factory is far, far away - And a Golden Lot is mine. |