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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	N
Meggan said one day	E
Fair Margaret can bide at home	O
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	A
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So these two fair sisters	P
Went with innocent will	B
Up the hill and down again	D
And round the homestead hill	B
While the fairest sat at home	O
Margaret like a queen	D
Like a blush rose like the moon	D
In her heavenly sheen	D
Fragrant breathed as milky cow	Q
Or field of blossoming bean	D
Graceful as an ivy bough	Q
Born to cling and lean	D
Thus she sat to sing and sew	A
	-
When she raised her lustrous eyes	R
A beast peeped at the door	H
When she downward cast her eyes	R
A fish gasped on the floor	H
When she turned away her eyes	R
A bird perched on the sill	B
Warbling out its heart of love	S
Warbling warbling still	B
With pathetic pleadings low	A
	-
Light foot May with Meggan	D
Sought the choicest spot	T
Clothed with thyme alternate grass	U
Then while day waxed hot	T
Sat at ease to play and rest	V
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	W
Wind play tossed their hair	H
Creeping things among the grass	U
Stroked them here and there	H
Meggan piped a merry note	X
A fitful wayward lay	E
While shrill as bird on topmost twig	Y
Piped merry May	E
Honey smooth the double flow	A
	-
Sped a herdsman from the vale	Z
Mounting like a flame	K
All on fire to hear and see	I
With floating locks he came	K
Looked neither north nor south	A2
Neither east nor west	V
But sat him down at Meggan's feet	B2
As love bird on his nest	V
And wooed her with a silent awe	C2
With trouble not expressed	V
She sang the tears into his eyes	R
The heart out of his breast	V
So he loved her listening so	A
	-
She sang the heart out of his breast	V
The words out of his tongue	D2
Hand and foot and pulse he paused	E2
Till her song was sung	D2
Then he spoke up from his place	F2
Simple words and true	M
Scanty goods have I to give	G2
Scanty skill to woo	M
But I have a will to work	H2
And a heart for you	M
Bid me stay or bid me go	A
	-
Then Meggan mused within herself	I2
Better be first with him	J2
Than dwell where fairer Margaret sits	K2
Who shines my brightness dim	J2
Forever second where she sits	K2
However fair I be	I
I will be lady of his love	S
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	A
	-
Sped a shepherd from the height	L2
Headlong down to look	M2
White lambs followed lured by love	S
Of their shepherd's crook	M2
He turned neither east nor west	V
Neither north nor south	A2
But knelt right down to May for love	S
Of her sweet singing mouth	A2
Forgot his flocks his panting flocks	N2
In parching hillside drouth	A2
Forgot himself for weal or woe	A
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Trilled her song and swelled her song	O2
With maiden coy caprice	P2
In a labyrinth of throbs	P2
Pauses cadences	P2
Clear noted as a dropping brook	M2
Soft noted like the bees	P2
Wild noted as the shivering wind	Q2
Forlorn through forest trees	P2
Love noted like the wood pigeon	D
Who hides herself for love	S
Yet cannot keep her secret safe	R2
But cooes and cooes thereof	S
Thus the notes rang loud or low	A
	-
He hung breathless on her breath	A2
Speechless who listened well	S2
Could not speak or think or wish	T2
Till silence broke the spell	S2
Then he spoke and spread his hands	P2
Pointing here and there	H
See my sheep and see the lambs	P2
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	A
	-
In her fluttered heart young May	E
Mused a dubious while	U2
If he loves me as he says	P2
Her lips curved with a smile	U2
Where Margaret shines like the sun	D
I shine but like a moon	D
If sister Meggan makes her choice	P2
I can make mine as soon	D
At cockcrow we were sister maids	P2
We may be brides at noon	D
Said Meggan Yes May said not No	A
	-
Fair Margaret stayed alone at home	O
Awhile she sang her song	O2
Awhile sat silent then she thought	V2
My sisters loiter long	O2
That sultry noon had waned away	E
Shadows had waxen great	W2
Surely she thought within herself	I2
My sisters loiter late	W2
She rose and peered out at the door	H
With patient heart to wait	W2
And heard a distant nightingale	Z
Complaining of its mate	W2
Then down the garden slope she walked	X2
Down to the garden gate	W2
Leaned on the rail and waited so	A
	-
The slope was lightened by her eyes	P2
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	L2
Thus crowned with maiden majesty	I
She peered into the night	L2
Looked up the hill and down the hill	B
To left hand and to right	L2
Flashing like fire flies to and fro	A
	-
Waiting thus in weariness	P2
She marked the nightingale	Z
Telling if any one would heed	Y2
Its old complaining tale	Z
Then lifted she her voice and sang	Z2
Answering the bird	A3
Then lifted she her voice and sang	Z2
Such notes were never heard	A3
From any bird when Spring's in blow	A
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The king of all that country	I
Coursing far coursing near	H
Curbed his amber bitted steed	Y2
Coursed amain to hear	H
All his princes in his train	D
Squire and knight and peer	H
With his crown upon his head	B3
His sceptre in his hand	C3
Down he fell at Margaret's knees	P2
Lord king of all that land	C3
To her highness bending low	A
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Every beast and bird and fish	T2
Came mustering to the sound	D3
Every man and every maid	E3
From miles of country round	D3
Meggan on her herdsman's arm	F3
With her shepherd May	E
Flocks and herds trooped at their heels	P2
Along the hillside way	E
No foot too feeble for the ascent	G3
Not any head too gray	E
Some were swift and none were slow	A
	-
So Margaret sang her sisters home	O
In their marriage mirth	A2
Sang free birds out of the sky	H3
Beasts along the earth	A2
Sang up fishes of the deep	I3
All breathing things that move	J3
Sang from far and sang from near	H
To her lovely love	S
Sang together friend and foe	A
	-
Sang a golden bearded king	K3
Straightway to her feet	B2
Sang him silent where he knelt	L3
In eager anguish sweet	B2
But when the clear voice died away	E
When longest echoes died	M3
He stood up like a royal man	D
And claimed her for his bride	M3
So three maids were wooed and won	D
In a brief May tide	M3
Long ago and long ago	A