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Robin Hood's mother these twelve years now	A
Has been gone from her earthly home	B
And Robin has paid he scarce knew how	A
A sum for a noble tomb	C
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The church yard lies on a woody hill	D
But open to sun and air	E
It seems as if the heaven still	D
Were looking and smiling there	E
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Often when Robin looked that way	F
He looked through a sweet thin tear	E
But he looked in a different manner they say	F
Towards the Abbey of Vere	G
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He cared not for its ill got wealth	H
He felt not for his pride	I
He had youth and strength and health	H
And enough for one beside	I
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But he thought of his gentle mother's cheek	J
How it sunk away	F
And how she used to grow more weak	J
And weary every day	F
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And how when trying a hymn her voice	K
At evening would expire	L
How unlike it was the arrogant noise	M
Of the hard throats in the quire	L
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And Robin thought too of the poor	N
How they toiled without their share	E
And how the alms at the abbey door	O
But kept them as they were	P
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And he thought him then of the friars again	Q
Who rode jingling up and down	R
With their trappings and things as fine as the king's	S
Though they wore but a shaven crown	R
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And then bold Robin he thought of the king	T
How he got all his forests and deer	G
And how he made the hungry swing	T
If they killed but one in a year	G
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And thinking thus as Robin stood	U
Digging his bow in the ground	V
He was aware in Gamelyn Wood	U
Of one who looked around	V
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quot And what is Will doing quot said Robin then	Q
quot That he looks so fearful and wan quot	V
quot Oh my dear master that should have been	W
I am a weary man quot	V
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quot A weary man quot said Will Scarlet quot am I	X
For unless I pilfer this wood	V
To sell to the fletchers for want I shall die	X
Here in this forest so good	V
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quot Here in this forest where I have been	W
So happy and so stout	V
And like a palfrey on the green	Y
Have carried you about quot	V
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quot And why Will Scarlet not come to me	Z
Why not to Robin Will	D
For I remember thy love and thy glee	Z
And the scar that marks thee still	D
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quot And not a soul of my uncle's men	Q
To such a pass should come	A2
While Robin can find in his pocket or bin	W
A penny or a crumb	A2
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quot Stay thee Will Scarlet man stay awhile	B2
And kindle a fire for me quot	V
And into the wood for half a mile	B2
He has vanished instantly	Z
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Robin Hood with his cheek on fire	P
Has drawn his bow so stern	C2
And a leaping deer with one leap higher	P
Lies motionless in the fern	C2
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Robin like a proper knight	V
As he should have been	W
Carved a part of the shoulder right	V
And bore off a portion clean	Y
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quot Oh what hast thou done dear master mine	D2
What hast thou done for me quot	V
quot Roast it Will for excepting wine	D2
Thou shalt feast thee royally quot	V
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And Scarlet took and half roasted it	V
Blubbering with blinding tears	E2
And ere he had eaten a second bit	V
A trampling came to their ears	F2
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They heard the tramp of a horse's feet	V
And they listened and kept still	D
For Will was feeble and knelt by the meat	V
And Robin he stood by Will	D
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quot Seize him seize him quot the Abbot cried	V
With his fat voice through the trees	G2
Robin a smooth arrow felt and eyed	V
And Will jumped stout with his knees	G2
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quot Seize him seize him quot and now they appear	G
The Abbot and foresters three	Z
quot 'Twas I quot cried Will Scarlet quot that killed the deer quot	V
Says Robin quot Now let not a man come near	G
Or he's dead as dead can be quot	V
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But on they came and with an embrace	H2
The first one the arrow met	V
And he came pitching forward and fell on his face	H2
Like a stumbler in the street	V
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The others turned to that Abbot vain	I2
But quot seize him quot still he cried	V
And as the second turned again	Q
An arrow was in his side	V
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quot Seize him seize him still I say quot	V
Cried the Abbot in furious chafe	J2
quot Or these dogs will grow so bold some day	V
Even priests will not be safe quot	V
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A fatal word for as he sat	V
Urging the sword to cut	V
An arrow stuck in his paunch so fat	V
As in a leathern butt	V
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As in a leathern butt of wine	D2
Or dough a household lump	K2
Or a pumpkin or a good beef chine	D2
Stuck that arrow with a dump	K2
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quot Truly quot said Robin without fear	G
Smiling there as he stood	V
quot Never was slain so fat a deer	G
In good old Gamelyn wood quot	V
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quot Pardon pardon Sir Robin stout quot	V
Said he that stood apart	V
quot As soon as I knew thee I wished thee out	V
Of the forest with all my heart	V
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quot And I pray thee let me follow thee	Z
Any where under the sky	X
For thou wilt never stay here with me	Z
Nor without thee can I quot	V
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Robin smiled and suddenly fell	L2
Into a little thought	V
And then into a leafy dell	L2
The three slain men they brought	V
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Ancle deep in leaves so red	V
Which autumn there had cast	V
When going to her winter bed	V
She had undrest her last	V
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And there in a hollow side by side	V
They buried them under the treen	D2
The Abbot's belly for all it's pride	V
Made not the grave be seen	D2
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Robin Hood and the forester	P
And Scarlet the good Will	D
Struck off among the green trees there	E
Up a pathless hill	D
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And Robin caught a sudden sight	V
Of merry sweet Locksley town	D2
Reddening in the sun set bright	V
And the gentle tears came down	D2
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Robin looked at the town and land	V
And the church yard where it lay	V
And poor Will Scarlet kissed his hand	V
And turned his head away	V
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Then Robin turned with a grasp of Will's	M2
And clapped him on the shoulder	P
And said with one of his pleasant smiles	N2
quot Now shew us three men bolder quot	V
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And so they took their march away	V
As firm as if to fiddle	O2
To journey that night and all next day	V
With Robin Hood in the middle	O2

James Henry Leigh Hunt

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