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122 'For that I live am I content

(Oh! I have seen my true love's eyes)

To stand wi' Adam in Eden-glade,

And run in the woods o' Paradise!'

True Thomas laid his harp away,

And louted low at the saddle-side;

He has taken stirrup and hauden rein,

And set the King on his horse o' pride.

'Sleep ye or wake,' True Thomas said,

'That sit so still, that muse so long;

Sleep ye or wake?—till the latter sleep

I trow ye'll not forget my song.

'I ha' harpit a shadow out o' the sun

To stand before your face and cry;

I ha' armed the earth beneath your heel,

And over your head I ha' dusked the sky.