Bought and Sold [poem by William Blocksidge (William Baylebridge)]

[Editor: This poem by William Blocksidge (also known as William Baylebridge) was published in Songs o’ the South (1908).]

Bought and Sold

He was bought and she was sold
With a million discs of shining gold;
He was sold and she was bought
With a title stale that she fondly sought.

Source:
William Blocksidge, Songs o’ the South, London: Watts, 1908, p. 77