The Works of The Ettrick Shepherd Centenary Edition. With a Memoir of the Author, by the Rev. Thomas Thomson ... Poems and Life. With Many Illustrative Engravings [by James Hogg] |
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Maiden of Jeshimon.
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Maiden of Jeshimon.
DUET.
1st voice.Oh, lives one love-spark in your breast,
Maiden of Jeshimon, pray you tell?
2d voice.
Go ask at her whom you now love best,
Ask her the way you know full well.
1st voice.
Women are fickle, and all untrue!
2d voice.
Men are ungrateful—so are you!
1st voice.
Vanity!
2d voice.
Lenity!
Both voices.
Wormwood and gall!
2d voice.
Suavity!
1st voice.
Levity!
Both voices.
Worst of all!
Once full happy and blithe were we,
Blithe as bird on the greenwood tree!
1st voice.
Long I loved, and loved you dear,
2d voice.
Many a day and many a year:
Both voices.
Then all nature seemed completer—
Smiling sweeter.
Ah, how dear!
1st voice.
But 'tis gone!
2d voice.
Let it go!
1st voice.
Can'st thou say so, true love?
2d voice.
Time, that wears all away,
Will lay me low!
Both voices.
Again we'll sport, as we have done,
Round the tree, over the lea;
Nature then shall smile again,
And who so blithe and blest as we?
Sweet the bird shall sing on the tree,
And sweet the sun rise over the sea!
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