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the moon is rising

O'er the forest trees,

Fain would I inform me

Where my lover is:

he made me promise,

Ere the moon should smile,

Here to wait his coming—

What a weary while!

the cows—I've milk'd them—

O, the ling'ring hour:

I have wreath'd the arbor

With each fragrant flower.