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 Ballads of the Four Seasons

��The Lord Governor, he comes from the south,

His five horses stop and stay.

The Lord Governor bids his men aslc;

And they say: "Who art thou, little maid?"

"I am the fair daughter of Master Chin,

"Lo-foh is my name."

"How old art thou, Lo-foh?"

"I am still less than twenty,

"But more than fifteen — yea, much more."

The Lord Governor, he entreats Lo-foh.

Says he, "Wilt thou ride with me, yea or nay?"

Lo-foh comes forward and replies:

"My Lord Governor," says she, "how foolish, indeed!

"My Lord Governor, you have your own lady,

"And Lo-foh, she has a man of her own"

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