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"I long wooed your daughter, my suit They'll have fleet steeds that follow!"

you denied:

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With hawk, and horse, and hunting-spear!
Hounds are in their couples yelling,
Hawks are whistling, horns are knelling,
Merrily, merrily, mingle they:
"Waken, lords and ladies gay."

Waken, lords and ladies gay,

The mist has left the mountain grey; 10 Springlets in the dawn are steaming, Diamonds on the brake are gleaming:

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EPILOGUE

Harp of the North, farewell! The hills grow dark,

On purple peaks a deeper shade descending;

In twilight copse the glow-worm lights. her spark,

The deer, half-seen, are to the covert wending.

Resume thy wizard elm! the fountain lending,

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And the wild breeze, thy wilder min- O, Brignall banks are wild and fair, strelsy;

Thy numbers sweet with nature's vespers

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And Greta woods are green,
And you may gather garlands there
Would grace a summer queen.
And as I rode by Dalton-hall,
Beneath the turrets high,

A maiden on the castle wall
Was singing merrily:

"O, Brignall banks are fresh and fair, And Greta woods are green;

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

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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,

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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;
His blast is heard at merry morn,
And mine at dead of night.".
Yet sung she, "Brignall banks are fair,
And Greta woods are gay;

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

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