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Sir Ulric back from the chase has come,
And sounds the horn at his castel-home.
Or ever he drew his bridle-rein,
He saw the dial split in twain;

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The bonny blithe bird was stark and dead,
And the lithe little page hung down his head.
The lithe little page hung down his head;
Wild winds whistle and snow is come;
“O where, Sir Page, has my lady fled?”
Hither and thither the birds fly home.