Nell Barnes - Нелл Барнс

They lived apart for three long years,

Bill Barnes and Nell his wife;

He took his joy from other girls,

She led a wicked life.

Они три года жили врозь,

Билл Барнс и Нелл, супруга.

Ему - с кем тешиться - нашлось,

у Нелл житьё шло туго.

Yet ofttimes she would pass his shop,

With some strange man awhile;

And, looking, meet her husband's frown

With her malicious smile.

Нередко с ней один пентюх

бывал у лавки Билла:

у Билла резко падал дух,

а Нелл лицо кривила.

Until one day, when passing there,

She saw her man had gone;

And when she saw the empty shop,

She fell down with a moan.

Но вот дошла в дурной денёк

до мужнего квартала,

а на двери висел замок -

так обморок упала.

And when she heard that he had gone

Five thousand miles away;

And that she's see his face no more,

She sickened from that day.

Билл где-то за пять тысяч миль

другое начал дело,

и Нелл, прознав такую быль,

жестоко заболела.

To see his face was health and life,

And when it was denied,

She could not eat, and broke her heart -

It was for love she died.

Была не в силах пить и есть,

чем далее, то хуже:

ей сердце разорвала весть,

что не увидит мужа.