Does anyone recognize this poem/verse? It is from a book?

http://www.charlesdelint.com/

Suggest you follow the safe link above, click on Books and observe the many titles at the left to see if any jog your memory. Charles DeLint often starts his books with a verse or two and they are often from older works by others. Often fey. Y/A books.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamie_Macpherson

This Wiki link leads to a story of a gypsy who is hanged (for being a gypsy) and by clicking on # 4 in the Contents Box - 'The Lament' - you can read what he had to say about it. It's not Exactly what you have, but lead me further to...

http://www.gutenberg.org/Robert_Burns Project Gutenberg has all of Robert Burns works, the famed Scot who wrote both poetry and music...

...and is said by Wiki to have updated and rewritten 'Jamie MacPherson's Lament.' There are many things to choose from at this free site.

I also spent some time just looking at Amazon (used as a research tool by me) and other places, like http://www.enotes.com/ where you can also read (just another suggestion) the work of Alexandre Dumas, author of "Three Musketeers," "The Count of Monte Cristo" and "The Man in the Iron Mask," among a few more.

Perhaps you have your answer already by now...

OK, I simply seemed it up on Amazon, and it lists the writer as PublishAmerica. PublishAmerica is a rip-off that well-nigh fees you to print a replica of your ebook. Look it up. It's pretty much a self-publishing corporation that pretends to not be. It's rather recognized for conning individuals into considering they have acquired a 'truly' publishing deal whilst in precise reality, it is only a self-publishing corporation like all of the different self-publishing corporations available in the market. They're infamous. Sorry, however self-released books are not able to be offered in truly bookstores, are not reviewed by way of newspapers/magazines and shouldn't have any legit advertising push in the back of them. Your mom demands to chalk this one as much as revel in and get released by way of a truly writer - ie, she demands to write down one other ebook after which begin querying retailers and publishers. Real publishers. Not PublishAmerica or another corporation like that. Remember: if a writer asks you to pay any cash in the direction of the price of publishing your ebook, they don't seem to be a reputable publishing corporation and any ebook (principally fiction) released by way of them effectively won't promote. Will. Not. Sell. And no quantity of self-advertising is more likely to make a change. Your mom demands to perform a little severe study and uncover out extra approximately how the publishing industry works. Then she'll recognise larger for subsequent time and observe that a normally released ebook is promoted and advertised by way of the writer and expenditures you not anything.