. Songs and ballads of the West : a collection made from the mouths of the people. d was aud coy;Hum eanst thou i-hoose but pity nne,My pretty pearl, my joy?How comes it that thuii stroHst this Sweet maiden, tell ine hri<i;ht glittering rayHas supped the morning dew?3I go to tend the floeks I io\eThe ewes aud tender la; pasture b\ the m\rtle grove, rh\t gamlioi by their dams;There I eiijo_\ a pure content At dawning of the , hand in hand, \\e lovers wentTo see the flock at pli\.4And as Ml- wended doMu the read. I said to her, Sweet Maid,Three years I in

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. Songs and ballads of the West : a collection made from the mouths of the people. d was aud coy;Hum eanst thou i-hoose but pity nne,My pretty pearl, my joy?How comes it that thuii stroHst this Sweet maiden, tell ine hri<i;ht glittering rayHas supped the morning dew?3I go to tend the floeks I io\eThe ewes aud tender la; pasture b\ the m\rtle grove, rh\t gamlioi by their dams;There I eiijo_\ a pure content At dawning of the , hand in hand, \\e lovers wentTo see the flock at pli\.4And as Ml- wended doMu the read. I said to her, Sweet Maid,Three years I in iii\ place abodeAnd three more must be three that I am bound so fast, () fairest wait for when the wear\ _\ears are past,Ihen married we will bel Ma\ Three \ears are long, three times too long, I<io lenijthv the then I answered iu m\ song. Hope wastes them quick awa\.Where love is fervent, fain and fast, .Vnd knoweth not nimbly fleet the seasons past Accounted as one day: P « *. Hi. t ,y92. THE HUNTING OF ARSCOTT OF TETCOTT. Wtth.

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