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Rh His speech was strange and broken,

And none could understand,

Such words as might be spoken

In some far distant land.

We guessed not whence he hailed from,

Nor knew what far-off quay

His roving bark had sailed from

Before he came to me.

But there he was, so slender,

So helpless and so pale,

That my wife's heart grew tender

For one who seemed so frail.

She cried, 'But you must bide here!

You shall no further roam.

Grow stronger by our side here,

Within our moorland home!'