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This is an evil night to go my sister	A
To the fairy tree across the fairy rath	B
Will you not wait till Hallow Eve is over	A
For many are the dangers in your path	B
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I may not wait till Hallow Eve is over	A
I shall be there before the night is fled	C
For brother I am weary for my lover	A
And I must see him once alive or dead	C
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I've prayed to heaven but it would not listen	D
I'll call thrice in the devil's name to night	E
Be it a live man that shall come to hear me	F
Or but a corpse all clad in snowy white	E
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She had drawn on her silken hose and garter	A
Her crimson petticoat was kilted high	G
She trod her way amid the bog and brambles	H
Until the fairy tree she stood near by	G
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When first she cried the devil's name so loudly	F
She listened but she heard no sound at all	I
When twice she cried she thought from out the darkness	J
She heard the echo of a light footfall	I
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When last she cried her voice came in a whisper	A
She trembled in her loneliness and fright	E
Before her stood a shrouded mighty figure	A
In sombre garments blacker than the night	E
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And if you be my own true love she questioned	K
I fear you Speak you quickly unto me	F
O I am not your own true love it answered	L
He drifts without a grave upon the sea	F
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If he be dead then gladly will I follow	M
Down the black stairs of death into the grave	N
Your lover calls you for a place to rest him	O
From the eternal tossing of the wave	N
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I'll make my love a bed both wide and hollow	M
A grave wherein we both may ever sleep	P
What give you for his body fair and slender	A
To draw it from the dangers of the deep	P
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I'll give you both my silver comb and earrings	Q
I'll give you all my little treasure store	R
I will but take what living thing comes forward	L
The first to meet you passing to your door	R
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O may my little dog be first to meet me	F
So loose my lover from your dreaded hold	S
What will you give me for the heart that loved you	T
The heart that I hold chained and frozen cold	S
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My own betrothed ring I give you gladly	F
My ring of pearls and every one a tear	U
I will but have what other living creature	A
That second in your pathway shall appear	V
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To buy this heart to warm my love to living	W
I pray my pony meet me on return	X
And now for his young soul what will you give me	F
His soul that night and day doth fret and burn	X
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You will not have my silver comb and earrings	Q
You will not have my ring of precious stone	Y
O nothing have I left to promise to you	T
But give my soul to buy him back his own	Y
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All woefully she wept and stepping homeward	L
Bemoaned aloud her dark and cruel fate	Z
O come she cried my little dog to meet me	F
And you my horse be browsing at the gate	Z
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Right hastily she pushed by bush and bramble	A2
Chased by a fear that made her footsteps fleet	B2
And as she ran she met her little brother	A
Then her old father coming her to meet	B2
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O brother little brother cried she weeping	W
Well you said of fairy tree beware	U
For precious things are bought and sold ere mid night	E
On Hallow eve by those who barter there	U
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She went alone into the little chapel	A2
And knelt before the holy virgin's shrine	C2
Saying Mother Mary pray you for me	F
To save those two most gentle souls of thine	C2
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And as she prayed behold the holy statue	T
Spoke to her saying Little can I aid	D2
God's ways are just and you have dared to question	D
His judgment on this soul you bought and paid	D2
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For that one soul your father and your brother	A
Your own immortal life you bartered then	E2
Yet one chance is allowed your sure repentance	F2
Give back his heart you made to live again	E2
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For these two souls my father and my brother	A
I give his heart back into death's cold land	G2
Never again to warm his dead sweet body	F
Or beat to madness underneath my hand	G2
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And for your soul to save it from its sorrow	M
You must drive back his soul into the night	E
Back into righteous punishment and justice	J
Or lose your chance of everlasting light	E
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O never shall I drive him back to anguish	H2
My soul shall suffer letting his go free	F
She rose and weeping left the little chapel	A2
Went forward blindly till she reached the sea	F
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She dug a grave within the surf and shingle	A2
A dark cold bed made very deep and wide	I2
She laid her down all stiff and stretched for burial	A2
Right in the pathway of the rising tide	I2
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First tossed into her waiting arms the restless	J
Loud waves a woman very grey and cold	S
Within her bed she stood upright so quickly	F
And loosed her fingers from the dead hands' hold	S
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The second who upon her heart had rested	J2
From out the storm a baby chill and stark	K2
With one long sob she drew it on her bosom	L2
Then thrust it out again into the dark	K2
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The last who came so slow was her own lover	A
She kissed his icy face on cheek and chin	M2
O cold shall be your house to night beloved	N2
O cold the bed that we must sleep within	M2
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And heavy heavy on our lips so faithful	A2
And on our hearts shall lie our own roof tree	F
And as she spoke the bitter tears were falling	W
On his still face all salter than the sea	F
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And oh she said if for a little moment	O2
You knew my cold dead love that I was by	G
That my soul goes into the utter darkness	J
When yours comes forth and mine goes in to die	G
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And as she wept she kissed his frozen forehead	C
Laid her warm lips upon his mouth so chill	P2
With no response and then the waters flowing	W
Into their grave grew heavy deep and still	P2
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And so 'tis said if to that fairy thorn tree	F
You dare to go you see her ghost so lone	Y
She prays for love of her that you will aid her	A
And give your soul to buy her back her own	Y

Dora Sigerson Shorter

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