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Rh. Fedelm, I did not know that you were here.

. And can you not remember that I promised That I would come and take you home with me When I’d the harvest in?. And now I’ve come, And you must come away, and come on the instant.

. Yes, I will come. But is the harvest in? This air has got a summer taste in it.

. But is not the wild middle of the summer A better time to marry? Come with me now!

[Seizing her by both wrists]. Who taught you that? For it’s a certainty, Although I never knew it till last night, That marriage, because it is the height of life, Can only be accomplished to the full In the high days of the year. I lay awake: There had come a frenzy into the light of the stars, And they were coming nearer, and I knew All in a minute they were about to marry Clods out upon the ploughlands, to beget A mightier race than any that has been. But some that are within there made a noise, And frighted them away.