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 An old man caught the horse's head

With 'You must home again and wed

With somebody in your own land'.

A young man cried and kissed her hand

'O lady, wed with one of us;'

And when no face grew piteous

For any gentle thing she spake

She fell and died of the heart-break'.

Because a lover's heart's worn out

Being tumbled and blown about

By its own blind imagining,

And will believe that anything

That is bad enough to be true, is true,

Baile's heart was broken in two;

And he being laid upon green boughs

Was carried to the goodly house

Where the Hound of Ulad sat before

The brazen pillars of his door;

His face bowed low to weep the end

Of the harper's daughter and her friend;

For although years had passed away

He always wept them on that day,

For on that day they had been betrayed;

And now that Honey-Mouth is laid

Under a cairn of sleepy stone

Before his eyes, he has tears for none, 10