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Long ago and long ago	A
And long ago still	B
There dwelt three merry maidens	C
Upon a distant hill	B
One was tall Meggan	D
And one was dainty May	E
But one was fair Margaret	F
More fair than I can say	E
Long ago and long ago	A
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When Meggan plucked the thorny rose	G
And when May pulled the brier	H
Half the birds would swoop to see	I
Half the beasts draw nigher	H
Half the fishes of the streams	J
Would dart up to admire	H
But when Margaret plucked a flag flower	H
Or poppy hot aflame	K
All the beasts and all the birds	L
And all the fishes came	K
To her hand more soft than snow	A
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Strawberry leaves and May dew	M
In brisk morning air	H
Strawberry leaves and May dew	M
Make maidens fair	H
'I go for strawberry leaves '	-
Meggan said one day	E
'Fair Margaret can bide at home	N
But you come with me May	E
Up the hill and down the hill	B
Along the winding way	E
You and I are used to go '	-
	-
So these two fair sisters	O
Went with innocent will	B
Up the hill and down again	D
And round the homestead hill	B
While the fairest sat at home	N
Margaret like a queen	D
Like a blush rose like the moon	D
In her heavenly sheen	D
Fragrant breathed as milky cow	P
Or field of blossoming bean	D
Graceful as an ivy bough	P
Born to cling and lean	D
Thus she sat to sing and sew	A
	-
When she raised her lustrous eyes	Q
A beast peeped at the door	H
When she downward cast her eyes	Q
A fish gasped on the floor	H
When she turned away her eyes	Q
A bird perched on the sill	B
Warbling out its heart of love	R
Warbling warbling still	B
With pathetic pleadings low	A
	-
Light foot May with Meggan	D
Sought the choicest spot	S
Clothed with thyme alternate grass	T
Then while day waxed hot	S
Sat at ease to play and rest	U
A gracious rest and play	E
The loveliest maidens near or far	H
When Margaret was away	E
Who sat at home to sing and sew	A
	-
Sun glow flushed their comely cheeks	V
Wind play tossed their hair	H
Creeping things among the grass	T
Stroked them here and there	H
Meggan piped a merry note	W
A fitful wayward lay	E
While shrill as bird on topmost twig	X
Piped merry May	E
Honey smooth the double flow	A
	-
Sped a herdsman from the vale	Y
Mounting like a flame	K
All on fire to hear and see	I
With floating locks he came	K
Looked neither north nor south	Z
Neither east nor west	U
But sat him down at Meggan's feet	A2
As love bird on his nest	U
And wooed her with a silent awe	B2
With trouble not expressed	U
She sang the tears into his eyes	Q
The heart out of his breast	U
So he loved her listening so	A
	-
She sang the heart out of his breast	U
The words out of his tongue	C2
Hand and foot and pulse he paused	D2
Till her song was sung	C2
Then he spoke up from his place	E2
Simple words and true	M
'Scanty goods have I to give	F2
Scanty skill to woo	M
But I have a will to work	G2
And a heart for you	M
Bid me stay or bid me go '	-
	-
Then Meggan mused within herself	H2
'Better be first with him	I2
Than dwell where fairer Margaret sits	J2
Who shines my brightness dim	I2
For ever second where she sits	J2
However fair I be	I
I will be lady of his love	R
And he shall worship me	I
I will be lady of his herds	L
And stoop to his degree	I
At home where kids and fatlings grow '	-
	-
Sped a shepherd from the height	K2
Headlong down to look	L2
White lambs followed lured by love	R
Of their shepherd's crook	L2
He turned neither east nor west	U
Neither north nor south	Z
But knelt right down to May for love	R
Of her sweet singing mouth	Z
Forgot his flocks his panting flocks	M2
In parching hill side drouth	Z
Forgot himself for weal or woe	A
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Trilled her song and swelled her song	N2
With maiden coy caprice	O2
In a labyrinth of throbs	O2
Pauses cadences	O2
Clear noted as a dropping brook	L2
Soft noted like the bees	O2
Wild noted as the shivering wind	P2
Forlorn through forest trees	O2
Love noted like the wood pigeon	D
Who hides herself for love	R
Yet cannot keep her secret safe	Q2
But coos and coos thereof	R
Thus the notes rang loud or low	A
	-
He hung breathless on her breath	Z
Speechless who listened well	R2
Could not speak or think or wish	S2
Till silence broke the spell	R2
Then he spoke and spread his hands	O2
Pointing here and there	H
'See my sheep and see the lambs	O2
Twin lambs which they bare	H
All myself I offer you	M
All my flocks and care	H
Your sweet song hath moved me so '	-
	-
In her fluttered heart young May	E
Mused a dubious while	T2
'If he loves me as he says'	O2
Her lips curved with a smile	T2
'Where Margaret shines like the sun	D
I shine but like a moon	D
If sister Meggan makes her choice	O2
I can make mine as soon	D
At cockcrow we were sister maids	O2
We may be brides at noon '	-
Said Meggan 'Yes ' May said not 'No '	-
	-
Fair Margaret stayed alone at home	N
Awhile she sang her song	N2
Awhile sat silent then she thought	U2
'My sisters loiter long '	-
That sultry noon had waned away	E
Shadows had waxen great	V2
'Surely ' she thought within herself	H2
'My sisters loiter late '	-
She rose and peered out at the door	H
With patient heart to wait	V2
And heard a distant nightingale	Y
Complaining of its mate	V2
Then down the garden slope she walked	W2
Down to the garden gate	V2
Leaned on the rail and waited so	O2
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The slope was lightened by her eyes	O2
Like summer lightning fair	H
Like rising of the haloed moon	D
Lightened her glimmering hair	H
While her face lightened like the sun	D
Whose dawn is rosy white	K2
Thus crowned with maiden majesty	I
She peered into the night	K2
Looked up the hill and down the hill	B
To left hand and to right	K2
Flashing like fire flies to and fro	O2
	-
Waiting thus in weariness	O2
She marked the nightingale	Y
Telling if any one would heed	X2
Its old complaining tale	Y
Then lifted she her voice and sang	Y2
Answering the bird	Z2
Then lifted she her voice and sang	Y2
Such notes were never heard	Z2
From any bird when Spring's in blow	O2
	-
The king of all that country	I
Coursing far coursing near	H
Curbed his amber bitted steed	X2
Coursed amain to hear	H
All his princes in his train	D
Squire and knight and peer	H
With his crown upon his head	A3
His sceptre in his hand	B3
Down he fell at Margaret's knees	O2
Lord king of all that land	B3
To her highness bending low	O2
	-
Every beast and bird and fish	S2
Came mustering to the sound	C3
Every man and every maid	D3
From miles of country round	C3
Meggan on her herdsman's arm	E3
With her shepherd May	E
Flocks and herds trooped at their heels	O2
Along the hill side way	E
No foot too feeble for the ascent	F3
Not any head too grey	E
Some were swift and none were slow	O2
	-
So Margaret sang her sisters home	N
In their marriage mirth	Z
Sang free birds out of the sky	G3
Beasts along the earth	Z
Sang up fishes of the deep	H3
All breathing things that move	I3
Sang from far and sang from near	H
To her lovely love	R
Sang together friend and foe	O2
	-
Sang a golden bearded king	J3
Straightway to her feet	A2
Sang him silent where he knelt	K3
In eager anguish sweet	A2
But when the clear voice died away	E
When longest echoes died	L3
He stood up like a royal man	D
And claimed her for his bride	L3
So three maids were wooed and won	D
In a brief May tide	L3
Long ago and long ago	O2