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XLV

They shaped him in her arms twa

But and a deer sae wild ; But aye she grips and hau'ds him fast,

The father o' her child.

XLVI

They shaped him in her arms twa

A hot iron at the fire; But aye she grips and hau'ds him fast

To be her heart's desire.

��They shaped him in her arms at last

A mother-naked man , She cast her mantle over him,

And sae her love she wan.

XLVIII Up then spak' the Queen o' Fairies,

Out o' a bush o* broom, 'She that has borrowed young Tarn Lin

Has gotten a stately groom.'

XLIX Out then spak' the Queen o' Fairies,

And an angry woman was she,
 * She 's ta'cn awa' the bonniest knight

In a' my companie '

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c But what I ken this night, Tarn Lin,

Gin I had kent yestreen, I wad ta'en out thy heart o' flesh,

And put in a heart o' stane.

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