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Gay was the Maid of Ocram	A
As lady eer might be	B
Ere she did venture past a maid	C
To love Lord Gregory	B
Fair was the Maid of Ocram	A
And shining like the sun	D
Ere her bower key was turned on two	E
Where bride bed lay for none	D
	-
And late at night she sought her love	F
The snow slept on her skin	G
Get up she cried thou false young man	H
And let thy true love in	G
And fain would he have loosed the key	B
All for his true love's sake	I
But Lord Gregory then was fast asleep	J
His mother wide awake	I
	-
And up she threw the window sash	K
And out her head put she	B
And who is that which knocks so late	L
And taunts so loud to me	B
It is the Maid of Ocram	B
Your own heart's next akin	G
For so you've sworn Lord Gregory	B
To come and let me in	G
	-
O pause not thus you know me well	M
Haste down my way to win	G
The wind disturbs my yellow locks	N
The snow sleeps on my skin	G
If you be the Maid of Ocram	B
As much I doubt you be	B
Then tell me of three tokens	O
That passed with you and me	B
	-
O talk not now of tokens	O
Which you do wish to break	I
Chilled are those lips you've kissed so warm	B
And all too numbed to speak	P
You know when in my father's bower	Q
You left your cloak for mine	R
Though yours was nought but silver twist	S
And mine the golden twine	R
	-
If you're the lass of Ocram	B
As I take you not to be	B
The second token you must tell	M
Which past with you and me	B
O know you not O know you not	T
Twas in my father's park	U
You led me out a mile too far	V
And courted in the dark	U
	-
When you did change your ring for mine	R
My yielding heart to win	G
Though mine was of the beaten gold	W
Yours but of burnished tin	G
Though mine was all true love without	X
Yours but false love within	G
	-
O ask me no more tokens	O
For fast the snow doth fall	Y
Tis sad to strive and speak in vain	Z
You mean to break them all	Y
If you are the Maid of Ocram	B
As I take you not to be	B
You must mention the third token	D
That passed with you and me	B
	-
Twas when you stole my maidenhead	X
That grieves me worst of all	Y
Begone you lying creature then	A2
This instant from my hall	Y
Or you and your vile baby	B
Shall in the deep sea fall	Y
For I have none on earth as yet	X
That may me father call	Y
	-
O must none close my dying feet	X
And must none close my hands	B2
And may none bind my yellow locks	N
As death for all demands	B2
You need not use no force at all	Y
Your hard heart breaks the vow	C2
You've had your wish against my will	D2
And you shall have it now	C2
	-
And must none close my dying feet	X
And must none close my hands	B2
And will none do the last kind deeds	E2
That death for all demands	B2
Your sister she may close your feet	X
Your brother close your hands	B2
Your mother she may wrap your waist	X
In death's fit wedding bands	B2
Your father he may tie your locks	N
And lay you in the sands	B2
	-
My sister she will weep in vain	Z
My brother ride and run	D
My mother she will break her heart	X
And ere the rising sun	D
My father will be looking out	X
But find me they will none	D
I go to lay my woes to rest	X
None shall know where I'm gone	F2
God must be friend and father both	G2
Lord Gregory will be none	D
	-
Lord Gregory started up from sleep	J
And thought he heard a voice	H2
That screamed full dreadful in his ear	I2
And once and twice and thrice	J2
Lord Gregory to his mother called	X
O mother dear said he	B
I've dreamt the Maid of Ocram	B
Was floating on the sea	B
	-
Lie still my son the mother said	X
Tis but a little space	K2
And half an hour has scarcely passed	X
Since she did pass this place	K2
O cruel cruel mother	Q
When she did pass so nigh	L2
How could you let me sleep so sound	X
Or let her wander bye	L2
Now if she's lost my heart must break	I
I'll seek her till I die	L2
	-
He sought her east he sought her west	X
He sought through park and plain	Z
He sought her where she might have been	G
But found her not again	A2
I cannot curse thee mother	Q
Though thine's the blame said he	B
I cannot curse thee mother	Q
Though thou'st done worse to me	B
Yet do I curse thy pride that aye	L2
So tauntingly aspires	M2
For my love was a gay knight's heir	N2
And my father was a squire's	M2
	-
And I will sell my park and hall	Y
And if ye wed again	A2
Ye shall not wed for titles twice	M2
That made ye once so vain	Z
So if ye will wed wed for love	F
As I was fain to do	X
Ye've gave to me a broken heart	X
And I'll give nought to you	X
	-
Your pride has wronged your own heart's blood	X
For she was mine by grace	M2
And now my lady love is gone	F2
None else shall take her place	M2
I'll sell my park and sell my hall	Y
And sink my titles too	X
Your pride's done wrong enough as now	C2
To leave it more to do	X
	-
She owneth none that owned them all	Y
And would have graced them well	M
None else shall take the right she missed	X
Nor in my bosom dwell	M
And then he took and burnt his will	D2
Before his mother's face	M2
And tore his patents all in two	X
While tears fell down apace	M2
But in his mother's haughty look	O2
Ye nought but frowns might trace	M2
	-
And then he sat him down to grieve	P2
But could not sit for pain	Z
And then he laid him on the bed	X
And ne'er got up again	A2

John Clare

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