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MY TRUE LOVE.
I
My love has a form of splendour;My love has an eye divine;
My love has a heart full tender,
And I know that heart is mine;
Her swan-like neck and bosom
Are softly fair and pure
As the snowy wild rose blossom,
Or the white flower of the moor.
II
The summer streamlets playing,Flow down in light and song,
So my thoughts to her go straying
Through night and all day long,
And to the bliss which crowned me,
When I kissed her o'er and o'er,
When my true love's arms were round me
By the wild lake's rocky shore.
III
My love's like a bright May morning,So pure, so mild, so bland;
My love's like a rose adorning
A bower in some fairy land;—
How I long for red eve's shining,
To see my true love stand,
Her golden tresses twining
With her snow-white lily hand!
IV
There's a stream in the wildwood springing,Where the birds chant on each tree:
Oh! I deem them for ever singing,
My mountain maid, of thee!
267
A deep sea shall o'erflow,
Ere I forsake my true love,
Or my heart one change shall know.
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