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 * HERE were three cherry trees once,
 * Grew in a garden all shady;

And there for delight of so gladsome a sight,
 * Walked a most beautiful lady,
 * Dreamed a most beautiful lady.


 * Birds in those branches did sing,
 * Blackbird and throstle and linnet,

But she walking there was by far the most fair —
 * Lovelier than all else within it,
 * Blackbird and throstle and linnet.


 * But blossoms to berries do come,
 * All hanging on stalks light and slender,

And one long summer's day charmed that lady away,
 * With vows sweet and merry and tender;
 * A lover with voice low and tender.


 * Moss and lichen the green branches deck;
 * Weeds nod in its paths green and shady:

Yet a light footstep seems there to wander in dreams,
 * The ghost of that beautiful lady,
 * That happy and beautiful lady.