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 And from their house-door by that track
 * The Bride and Bridegroom went;

Sweet Mary, tho' she was not gay,
 * Seem'd chearful and content.

But when they to the church-yard came,
 * I've heard poor Mary say,

As soon as she stept into the Sun,
 * Her heart it died away.

And when the Vicar join'd their hands,
 * Her limbs did creep and freeze;

But when they pray'd, she thought she saw
 * Her mother on her knees.

And o'er the church-path they return'd—
 * I saw poor Mary's back,

Just as she stept beneath the boughs
 * Into the mossy track.

Her feet upon the mossy track
 * The married maiden set:

That moment—I have lieard her say—
 * She wish'd she could forget.