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THE UNQUIET GRAVE—B
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Notes and Queries, Fifth Series, VII, 436, cited by W. R. S. R., from the Ipswich Journal, 1877: from memory, after more than seventy years.
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‘How cold the wind do blow, dear love,And see the drops of rain!
I never had but one true-love,
In the green wood he was slain.
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‘I would do as much for my own true-loveAs in my power doth lay;
I would sit and mourn all on his grave
For a twelvemonth and a day.’
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A twelvemonth and a day being past,His ghost did rise and speak:
‘What makes you mourn all on my grave?
For you will not let me sleep.’
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‘It is not your gold I want, dear love,Nor yet your wealth I crave;
But one kiss from your lily-white lips
Is all I wish to have.
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‘Your lips are cold as clay, dear love,Your breath doth smell so strong;’
‘I am afraid, my pretty, pretty maid,
Your time will not be long.’
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