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"If, maiden, thou wouldst wend with me, To leave both tower and town,

Thou first must guess what life lead we 15
That dwell by dale and down.
And if thou canst that riddle read,
As read full well you may,

Then to the greenwood shalt thou speed,
As blithe as Queen of May."-

Yet sung she: "Brignall banks are fair,
And Greta woods are green;

I'd rather rove with Edmund there,
Than reign our English queen.

"I read you by your bugle-horn,
And by your palfrey good,

I read you for a ranger sworn

To keep the King's greenwood.""A ranger, lady, winds his horn, And 'tis at peep of light:

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His sword in battle keen"

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His blast is heard at merry morn, And mine at dead of night."

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Yet sung she: "Brignall banks are fair,
And Greta woods are gay;

I would I were with Edmund there,
To reign his Queen of May.

"With burnished brand and musketoon So gallantly you come,

I read you for a bold dragoon

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Now melt into sorrow, now madden to crime?

Know ye the land of the cedar and vine, 5

GEORGE GORDON, LORD BYRON Where the flowers ever blossom, the beams

(1788-1824)

WHEN WE TWO PARTED

When we two parted In silence and tears, Half broken-hearted To sever for years,

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ever shine;

Where the light wings of Zephyr, oppressed

with perfume,

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