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Oh she tripped over Ocknell plain	A
And down by Bradley Water	B
And the fairest maid on the forest side	C
Was Jane the keeper's daughter	B
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She went and went through the broad gray lawns	D
As down the red sun sank	E
And chill as the scent of a new made grave	F
The mist smelt cold and dank	E
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'A token a token ' that fair maid cried	C
'A token that bodes me sorrow	G
For they that smell the grave by night	H
Will see the corpse to morrow	G
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'My own true love in Burley Walk	I
Does hunt to night I fear	J
And if he meet my father stern	K
His game may cost him dear	J
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'Ah here's a curse on hare and grouse	L
A curse on hart and hind	M
And a health to the squire in all England	N
Leaves never a head behind '	-
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Her true love shot a mighty hart	O
Among the standing rye	P
When on him leapt that keeper old	Q
From the fern where he did lie	P
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The forest laws were sharp and stern	K
The forest blood was keen	R
They lashed together for life and death	S
Beneath the hollies green	R
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The metal good and the walnut wood	T
Did soon in flinders flee	U
They tost the orts to south and north	V
And grappled knee to knee	U
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They wrestled up they wrestled down	W
They wrestled still and sore	X
Beneath their feet the myrtle sweet	Y
Was stamped to mud and gore	X
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Ah cold pale moon thou cruel pale moon	Z
That starest with never a frown	W
On all the grim and the ghastly things	A2
That are wrought in thorpe and town	W
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And yet cold pale moon thou cruel pale moon	Z
That night hadst never the grace	B2
To lighten two dying Christian men	C2
To see one another's face	B2
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They wrestled up they wrestled down	W
They wrestled sore and still	D2
The fiend who blinds the eyes of men	C2
That night he had his will	D2
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Like stags full spent among the bent	E2
They dropped a while to rest	F2
When the young man drove his saying knife	G2
Deep in the old man's breast	F2
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The old man drove his gunstock down	W
Upon the young man's head	H2
And side by side by the water brown	W
Those yeomen twain lay dead	H2
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They dug three graves in Lyndhurst yard	I2
They dug them side by side	C
Two yeomen lie there and a maiden fair	J2
A widow and never a bride	C
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In the New Forest	K2

Charles Kingsley

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