. Blood for blood; a legend of the "big elm tree,". 66 A legend that sets a-dreaming Knight and shepherd and swain— The youth and the maiden sing itOver and over again. It is breathed in the halls of pleasure,It is whispered beneath the yew— It shadows the life of the lone one,The fickle one and the true. It runs through the checkered lifeway,As through the lattice the vine—Cupid from his love parted,Or never had I from mine. 67. 68 THE CRAB APPLE TREE The winter winds blewOver stubble and through The boughs of the Crab Apple Tree;Though cold were the days,How bright was the blaze When Robin f

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. Blood for blood; a legend of the "big elm tree,". 66 A legend that sets a-dreaming Knight and shepherd and swain— The youth and the maiden sing itOver and over again. It is breathed in the halls of pleasure,It is whispered beneath the yew— It shadows the life of the lone one,The fickle one and the true. It runs through the checkered lifeway,As through the lattice the vine—Cupid from his love parted,Or never had I from mine. 67. 68 THE CRAB APPLE TREE The winter winds blewOver stubble and through The boughs of the Crab Apple Tree;Though cold were the days,How bright was the blaze When Robin first came to see me. The blue birds of May Sang sweetly awayHigh up in the Crab Apple Tree, When, hanging his head, Robin timidly said:Dear Mary, I love only thee. The clover had spread Its white summer bedBeneath the old Crab Apple Tree, Said Robin: Im thine, If thou wilt be mine—Say, Mary, wilt thou not have me ? 69

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