Emblems Of Love, Part Ii Imperfection Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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MARY	A
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A LEGEND OF THE FORTY FIVE	B
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A street in Carlisle leading to the Scottish Gate Three girls MARY KATRINA and JEAN	C
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Katrina	D
What a year this has been	E
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Mary	A
There's many a lass	F
Will blench to hear the date of it Forty five	B
Poor souls Why will the men be fighting so	G
Running away to find out death as if	H
It were some tavern full of light and fiddling	I
And when the doors are shut what of the girls	J
Who gave themselves away and still must live	B
Are not men thoughtless	K
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Katrina	D
Leaving only kisses	L
To be remembered by	-
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Jean	C
That's not so bad	M
As when the dead lads went beyond kissing	I
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Mary	A
Poor souls Well Carlisle has at least three hearts	N
That are not crying for a lad who's gone	O
Listening to the lean old Crowder Death	P
We needn't mope and yet it's sad	M
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Jean	C
Come on	Q
Why are we dawdling All the heads are up	R
Steepled on spikes above the Scottish Gate	S
Some of the rebels rarely handsome too	T
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Mary	A
Won't it be rather horrible	U
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Katrina	D
A row	G
Of chopt off heads sitting on spikes ugh	V
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Jean	C
Yes	W
And I daresay blood dribbling here and there	X
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Mary	A
Don't Jean I am going back I was	Y
Forbid the gate	S
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Katrina	D
And so was I	-
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Jean	C
And I	-
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Katrina	D
But a mere peep at them	Z
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Jean	C
Yes come on Mary	A
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Mary	A
We might just see how horrible they are	A2
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Jean	C
Sure they will make us shudder	B2
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Katrina	D
Or else cry	-
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A MAN meets them	Z
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Man	C2
Are you for the show my girls	J
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Jean	C
We aren't your girls	J
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Katrina	D
Do you mean the heads upon the Scottish Gate	S
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Man	C2
Ay that's the show a pretty one	D2
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Jean	C
Are all	E2
The rebels' heads set up	R
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Man	C2
All all their cause	Y
Is fallen flat but go you on and see	A
How wonderly their proud heads are elate	S
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Katrina	D
Do any look as if they died afeared	S
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Man	C2
Go and learn that yourselves And when you mark	F2
How grimly addled all the daring is	G2
Now in those brains do as your hearts shall bid you	T
And that is weep I hope	H2
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Mary	A
O let's go back	I2
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Jean	C
We have no friends spiked on the Scottish Gate	S
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Man	C2
No Well there's quite a quire of voices there	X
Blessing the King's just wisdom for his stern	J2
Strong policy with the rebels	K2
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Mary	A
Who are those	L2
I think it's fiendish to have killed so many	A
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Man	C2
The chattering birds my lass and droning flies	M2
They're proper Whigs are birds and flies or else	N2
The Whigs are proper crows and carrion bugs	O2
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He goes on past them	Z
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Katrina	D
A Jacobite	S
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Jean	C
That's it I warrant you	T
One of the stay at homes	P2
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Mary	A
Now promise me	A
We'll only take a glimpse girls a short glimpse	Q2
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Jean laughing	I
Yes just to see how horrible they are	A2
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They go on towards the gate	S
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The Scottish Gate Carlisle Among the crowd	S
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Mary	A
O why did we come here	R2
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Jean	C
One two three four	S2
A devil's dozen of them at the least	S
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Katrina	D
Poor lads They did not need to set them up	R
So high surely Which is the one you'ld call	E2
Prettiest Jean	C
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Jean	C
That fellow with the sneer	T2
The axe's weight could not ruffle his brow	U2
How signed it is with scorn	V2
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Katrina	D
Ah yes he's dark	F2
And you are red Mary and I will choose	W2
Some golden fellow Which do you think Mary	A
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Jean	C
O but mine is the one Look do you see	A
He must have put his curls away from the axe	X2
Or did they part themselves when he knelt down	Y2
And let the stroke have his nape white and bare	X
O could a girl not nestle snug and happy	A
Against a neck with such hair covering her	B2
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Katrina	D
Now Mary we must make our yellow choice	Z2
You've got good eyes which do you fancy Jean	C
What ails her	B2
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Jean	C
How she stares which is the one	D2
She singles out That topmost boy it is	G2
Pretty enough for a flaxen poll indeed	S
Is that your lad Mary	A
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Katrina	D
She's ill or fey	A3
They are too much for her and I truly	A
Am nearly weeping for them and their wives and lasses	G2
Her eyes don't budge She's fastened on his face	G2
With just the look that one would have to greet	S
The ghost of one's own self See all her blood	S
Is trapt in her heart pale she is as he	A
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A Man in the Crowd	S
Can't you see she's fainting 'Tis no sight	S
For halfling girls	G2
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Jean	C
Halfling yourself	B3
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Katrina	D
Mary	A
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Mary	A
Let us go home now help me there Katrina	D
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Katrina	D
Yes dear but are you ill	C3
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Mary	A
No let us go home	D3
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Katrina to Jean	C
Come Jean Did you not hear her gasp We must	S
Be with her on her way home	D3
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Jean	C
You go then	E3
I've not lookt half enough at these Besides	G2
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MARY and KATRINA go	G
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Well sir how dare you speak to girls like that	S
When they're alone	F3
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The Man	C2
You needn't be so short	S
I guess you're one to take fine care of yourself	B3
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Jean	C
Yes and I'ld choose a better looking man	C2
Than you my chap if I wanted company	A
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The Man	C2
Come this way you'll see better	B2
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Jean	C
Impudence	G2
Who said your arm might be there	X
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The Man	C2
O it's all right	S
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Jean	C
And what do you think of the rebels now they're dead	S
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Mary lying awake in bed	S
O let me reason it out calmly Have I	-
No stars to take me through this terror poured	S
Suddenly dreadfully on to my heart and spirit	S
Why is it I of all the world I only	A
Who must so love against nature I knew	T
Always that not like harbour for a boat	S
Not a smooth safety Love would take my soul	G3
But like going naked and empty handed	S
Into the glitter and hiss of a wild sword play	A3
I should fall in love and in fear and danger	B2
But a danger of white light a fear of sharpness	G2
Keen and close to my heart not as it proves	G2
My heart hit by a great dull mace of terror	B2
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So it has come to me my hope my wonder	B2
Now I perceive that I was one of those	G2
Who till love comes have breath and beating blood	S
In one continual question All the beauty	A
My happy senses took till now has been	E
Drugg'd with a fiery want and discontent	S
That settled in my soul and lay there burning	I
The hills wearing their green ample dresses	G2
Right in the sky's blue courts with swerving folds	G2
Along the rigour of their stony sinews	G2
Often they garr'd my breath catch and stumble	U
The moon that through white ghost of water went	S
Till she was ring'd about with an amber window	G
The summer stars seen winking through dusk leaves	G2
All the earth's manners and most loveliness	G2
All made my asking spirit stir within me	A
And throb with a question whose answer is	G2
As now I know but then I did not know	G
There is a Man somewhere meant for me	A
And I have seen the face of him for whom	H3
My soul was made	S
Ah somewhere Where is that	S
Have I not dreamt that he is gone away	A3
Gone ere he loved me Now I lose myself	B3
I only have seen my boy's murder'd head	S
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Yes again light breaks through and quells my thought	S
The whole earth seemed as it belonged to me	A
A message spoken out in green and blue	T
Specially to my heart and it would say	A3
That some time out of the human multitude	S
A face would look into my soul and sign	I3
All my nature easily as it were wax	G2
With its dear image but after that impress	G2
I would all harden so that nought could raze	G2
The minting of that seal from off my being	I
And yesterday it fell An idle whim	J3
To see the rebels on the Scottish Gate	S
And there was the face of him I was made to love	K3
There ah God on the gate my murder'd lad	S
Did any girl have first sight love like this	G2
Not to have ever seen him only seen	C
Such piteous token that he has been born	V2
Lived and grown up to beauty the man who was meant	S
To sleep upon my breast and dead before	S2
The sweet custom of love could be between us	G2
To have but seen his face Is that enough	L3
To make me clear he is my man indeed	S
Why sure there are tales bordering on my lot	S
In misery Of hearts who have been stabbed	S
By knowledge that their mates were in the earth	M3
Yet never could come near enough to be healed	S
Of those who have gone longing all a life	N3
Because a voice heard singing or a gesture	B2
Seen from afar gospell'd them of love	K3
And no more than the mere announcement had	S
Ah but all these to mine were kindly dealing	I
For not till they'd trepann'd him out of life	N3
Did he poor laggard come to claim my soul	G3
O my love but your ears played you falsely	A
When they were taken by Death's wily tunes	G2
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Am I so hardly done to who have seen	C
My lover's face been near enough to worship	R
The very writing of his spirit in flesh	O3
For having that in my ken I am not far	A2
From loving with my eyes all his body	A
What a set would his shoulders have and neck	P3
To bear his goodly purposed head what gait	S
And usage of his limbs Ah do you smile	Q3
Why even so I knew your smile would be	A
Just such an over brimming of your soul	G3
O love love love then you have come to me	A
How I have stayed aching for you Come close	G2
Here's where you should have been long time long time	R3
It is your rightful place And I had left	S
Thinking you'ld come and kiss me over my heart	S
Ah lad my lad they told me you were dead	S
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IV	N3
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At Dawn The Scottish Gate	S
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Mary on her way to the gate singing to herself	N3
As a wind that has run all day	A3
Among the fragrant clover	B2
At evening to a valley comes	G2
So comes to me my lover	B2
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And as all night a honey'd warmth	S3
Stays where the wind did lie	-
So when my lover leaves my arms	G2
My heart's all honey	A
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But what have I to do with this And when	E3
Was that song put in hiding 'mid my thought	S
I might be on my way to meet and give	N3
Good morrow to my Ah last night last night	S
O fie I must not dream so	G
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At the Gate	S
It was I	-
I am the girl whose lover they have killed	S
Who never saw him until out of death	P
He lookt into my soul I was to meet	S
Somewhere in life my lover and behold	S
He has turned into an inn I dare not enter	B2
And gazes through a window at my soul	G3
Going on labour'd with this loving body	A
Did I not sleep last night with you in my arms	G2
I could have sworn it Why should body have	N3
So large a part in love For if 'twere only	A
Spirit knew how to love an easy road	S
My feet had down to death But I must want	S
Lips against mine and arms marrying me	A
And breast to kiss with its dear warmth my breast	S
Body must love O me how it must ache	T3
Before it is as numb as thine dear boy	U3
Poor darling didst thou forget that I was made	S
To wed thee body and soul For surely else	G2
Thou hadst not gone from life	N3
Ah folk already	A
Coming to curse the light with all their stares	G2
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KATRINA and JEAN	C
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Katrina	D
Where are you off to Jean in such a tear	X
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Jean	C
I'm busy	A
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Katrina	D
O you light skirts who is it now	U2
You think I can't guess what your business is	G2
Is it aught fresh or only old stuff warmed	S
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Jean	C
Does not the smartness in your wits Katrina	D
Make your food smack sourly Well this time	R3
It's serious with me I believe I'm caught	S
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Katrina	D
O but you've had such practice in being caught	S
You'll break away quite easily when you want	S
Tell me now who it is	G2
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Jean	C
The man who spoke	V3
When we were at the Scottish Gate that day	A3
O he's a dapper boy Did you mark his eyes	G2
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Katrina	D
Nay I saw nought but he was under grown	F3
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Jean	C
Pooh He can carry me	A
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Katrina	D
Jean have you heard	S
Of Mary lately I vow she's in love	N3
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Jean	C
Never with whom	H3
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Katrina	D
The thing's a wonder Jean	C
She'll speak to no one now and every day	A3
Morning and evening she's at the gate	S
Gazing like a fey creature on that head	S
She was so stricken to behold you mind it	S
I tell you she's in love with it	S
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Jean	C
O don't be silly	A
How can you fall in love with a dead man	C2
And what good could he do you if you did	S
One loves for kisses and for hugs and the rest	S
A spunky fellow that's the thing to love	N3
But a dead man pah what a foolery	A
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Katrina	D
O yes to you for Love's a game for you	T
'Twill turn out dangerous maybe but still a game	W3
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Jean	C
Yes the best kind of game a girl can play	A3
And all the better for the risk Katrina	D
But where the fun would be in Love if he	A
You played with had not heart to jump nor blood	S
To tingle nothing in him to go wild	S
At seeing you betray your love for him	J3
Beats me to understand You'ld be as wise	G2
Blowing the bellows at a pile of stone	F3
As loving one that never lived for you	T
It isn't just to make a wind you blow	G
But to turn red fire into white quivering heat	S
Whatever she's after 'tis not love my girl	X3
I know what love is But perhaps she saw	G2
The poor lad living Even had speech with him	J3
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Katrina	D
Not she Mary has never known a lad	S
I did not know as well We've shared our lives	G2
As if we had been sisters and I'm sure	Y3
She's never been in love before	S2
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Jean	C
Before	S2
Don't talk such sentimental nonsense	G2
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Katrina	D
Why	-
If Love at first sight can mean anything	I
Surely 'tis this there's some one in the world	S
Whom if you come across him you must love	N3
And you could no more pass his face unmoved	S
Than the year could go backwards Well suppose	G2
He dies just ere you meet him and he dead	S
Ay or his head alone is given your eyes	G2
It is enough he is the man for you	T
All as if he were quick and signalling	I
His heart to you in smiles	G2
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Jean	C
Believe me dear	T2
You've no more notion of the thing called Love	N3
Than a grig has of talking But I have	N3
And I'm off now to practise with my notions	G2
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Katrina	D
Now which is the real love hers or Mary's	G2
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Before Dawn At the Scottish Gate	S
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Mary	A
Beloved beloved O forgive me	A
That all these days questioning I have been	E
Struggled with doubts Your power over me	A
That here slipt through the nets death caught you in	E
Lighted on me so greatly that my heart	S
Could scarcely carry the amazement Now	U2
I am awake and seeing and I come	Z3
To save you from this post of ignominy	A
A ladder I have filched and thro' the streets	G2
Borne it on shoulders little used to weight	S
You'll say that I should not have bruised myself	N3
But it is good and an ease for me to have	N3
Some ache of body Now if there's any chink	A4
In death surely my love will reach to thee	A
Surely thou wilt be ware of how I go	G
Henceforth through life utterly thine And yet	S
Pardon what now I say for I must say it	S
I cannot thank thee my dear murder'd lad	S
For mastering me so What other girls	G2
Might say in blessing on their sweethearts' heads	G2
How can I say They are well done to when	E3
Love of a man their beings like a loom	H3
Seizes and the loose ends of purposes	G2
Into one beautiful desire weaves	G2
But love has not so done to me I was	G2
A nature clean as water from the hills	G2
One that had pleased the lips of God and now	U2
Brackish I am as if some vagrom malice	G2
Had trampled up the springs and made them run	D2
Channelling ancient secrecies of salt	S
O me what has my tongue these bitter words	G2
In front of my love's death Look down sweetheart	S
From the height of thy sacred ignominy	A
And see my shame Nay I will come up to thee	A
And have my pardon from thy lips and do	T
The only good I can to thee sweetheart	S
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I have done it but how have I done it	S
And what's this horrible thing to do with me	A
How came it on the ground here at my feet	S
O I had better have shirkt it altogether	B2
What do I love Not this this is only	A
A message that he left on earth for me	A
Signed by his spirit that he had to go	G
Upon affairs more worthy than my love	N3
We women must give place in our men's thoughts	G2
To matters such as those	G2
God God why must I love him Why	-
Must life be all one scope for the hawking wings	G2
Of Love that none the mischief can escape	B4
Well I am thine for always now my love	N3
For this has been our wedding No one else	G2
Since thee I have had claspt unto my breast	S
May touch me lovingly	A
Light it is light	S
What shall I do with it now I have got it	S
O merciful God must I handle it	S
Again I dare not what is it to me	A
Let me off this Who is it clutches me	A
By the neck behind Who has hold of me	A
Forcing me stoop down Love is it thou	U2
Spare me this service thou who hast all else	G2
Of my maimed life why wilt thou be cruel	U
O grip me not so fiercely Love Ah no	G
I will not 'tis abominable	U
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JEAN	C
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The Parlour of a Public House Two young men MORRIS	G2
and HAMISH	C4
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Hamish	C4
Come why so moody Morris Either talk	D4
Or drink at least	S
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Morris	G2
I'm wondering about Love	N3
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Hamish	C4
Ho are you there my boy Who may it be	A
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Morris	G2
I'm not in love but altogether posed	S
I am by lovers	G2
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Hamish	C4
They're a simple folk	V3
I'm one	D2
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Morris	G2
It's you I'm mainly thinking of	N3
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Hamish	C4
Why that's an honour surely	A
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Morris	G2
Now if I loved	S
The girl you love your Jean look where she goes	G2
Waiting on drinkers hearing their loose tongues	G2
And yet her clean thought takes no more of soil	E4
Than white hot steel laid among dust can take	T3
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Hamish	C4
You not in love and talking this fine stuff	N3
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Morris	G2
I say if I loved Jean I'ld do without	S
All these vile pleasures of the flesh your mind	S
Seems running on for ever I would think	A4
A thought that was always tasting them would make	T3
The fire a foul thing in me as the flame	W3
Of burning wood which has a rare sweet smell	F4
Is turned to bitter stink when it scorches flesh	O3
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Hamish	C4
Why specially Jean	C
	-
Morris	G2
Why Jean The girl's all spirit	S
	-
Hamish	C4
She's a lithe burd it's true that I suppose	G2
Is why you think her made of spirit unless	G2
You've seen her angry she has a blazing temper	B2
But what's a girl's beauty meant for but to rouse	G2
Lust in a man And where's the harm in that	S
In loving her because she's beautiful	U
And in the way that drives me I dare say	A3
My spirit loves her too But if it does	G2
I don't know what it loves	G2
	-
Morris	G2
Why man her beauty	A
Is but the visible manners of her spirit	S
And this you go to love by the filthy road	S
Which all the paws and hoofs in the world tread too	T
God And it's Jean whose lover runs with the herd	S
Of grunting howling barking lovers Jean	C
	-
Hamish	C4
O spirit spirit spirit What is spirit	S
I know I've got a body and it loves	G2
But who can tell me what my spirit's doing	I
Or even if I have one	D2
	-
Morris	G2
Well it's strange	G4
My God it's strange A girl goes through the world	S
Like a white sail over the sea a being	I
Woven so fine and lissom that her life	N3
Is but the urging spirit on its journey	A
And held by her in shape and attitude	S
And all she's here for is that you may clutch	H4
Her spirit in the love of a mating beast	S
	-
Hamish	C4
Why she has fifty lovers if she has one	D2
And fifty's few for her	B2
	-
Morris	G2
I'm going out	S
If the night does me good I'll come back here	R2
Maybe and walk home with you	T
	-
Hamish	C4
O don't bother	B2
If I want spirit it will be for drinking	I
MORRIS goes out	S
Spirit or no drinking's better than talking	I
Who was the sickly fellow to invent	S
That crazy notion spirit now I wonder	B2
But who'd have thought a burly lout like Morris	G2
Would join the brabble Sure he'll have in him	J3
A pint more blood than I have and he's all	E2
For loving girls with words three yards away	A3
	-
JEAN comes in	E
	-
Jean	C
Alone my boy Who was your handsome friend	S
	-
Hamish	C4
Whoever he was he's gone But I'm still here	R2
	-
Jean	C
O yes you're here you're always here	R2
	-
Hamish	C4
Of course	G2
And you know why	-
	-
Jean	C
Do I I've forgotten	D2
	-
Hamish	C4
Jean how can you say that O how can you	T
	-
Jean	C
Now don't begin to pity yourself please	G2
	-
Hamish	C4
Ah I am learning now it's truth they talk	D4
You would undo the skill of a spider's web	I4
And take the inches of it in one line	I3
More easily than know a woman's thought	S
I'm ugly on a sudden	D2
	-
Jean	C
The queer thing	I
About you men is that you will have women	D2
Love in the way you do But now learn this	G2
We don't love fellows for their skins we want	S
Something to wonder at in the way they love	N3
A chap may be as rough as brick if you like	J4
Yes or a mannikin and grow a tail	K4
If he's the spunk in him to love a girl	X3
Mainly and heartily he's the man for her	B2
My soul I've done with all you pretty men	E3
I want to stand in a thing as big as a wind	S
And I can only get your paper fans	G2
	-
Hamish	C4
You've done with me You wicked Jean You'll dare	X
To throw me off like this After you've made	S
O made my whole heart love you	T
	-
Jean	C
You are no good	S
Your friend now seems a likely man but you	T
I thought you were a torch and you're a squib	I4
	-
Hamish	C4
Not love you enough Death I'll show you then	E3
	-
Jean	C
Hands off Hamish There's smoke in you I know	G
And splutter too Hands off I say	A3
	-
Hamish	C4
By God	S
Tell me to morrow there's no force in me	A
	-
Jean	C
Leave go you little beast you're hurting me	A
I never thought you'ld be so strong as this	G2
Let go or I'll bite I mean it You young fool	L4
I'm not for you Take off your hands O help	M4
MORRIS has come in unseen and rushes forward	S
	-
Morris	G2
You beast You filthy villainous fellow Now	U2
I hope I've hurt the hellish brain in you	T
Take yourself off You'll need a nurse to night	S
HAMISH slinks out	S
Poor girl And are you sprained at all That ruffian	U2
	-
Jean	U2
O sir how can I thank you You don't know	U2
What we poor serving girls must put up with	N4
We don't hear many voices like yours sir	B2
They think because we serve we've no more right	S
To feelings than their cattle O forgive me	A
Talking to you You don't come often here	R2
	-
Morris	G2
No but I will after to night I'll see	A
You take no harm And as for him I'll smash him	J3
	-
Jean	U2
Yes break the devil's ribs I mean O leave me	A
I'm all distraught	S
	-
Morris	G2
Good night Jean My name's Morris	G2
	-
Jean	U2
Good night Morris dear O I must thank you	T
She suddenly kisses him	J3
Perhaps perhaps you'll think that wicked of me	A
	-
Morris	G2
You wicked O how silly But good night	S
He goes	G2
	-
Jean	U2
The man the man What luck My soul what luck	O4
	-
	-
II	-
	-
JEAN by herself undressing	O4
Yes he's the man Jean my girl you're done for	S2
At last you're done for the good God be thankt	S
That was a wonderful look he had in his eyes	G2
'Tis a heart I believe that will burn marvellously	L4
Now what a thing it is to be a girl	L4
Who'ld be a man Who'ld be fuel for fire	B2
And not the quickening touch that sets it flaming	O4
'Tis true that when we've set him well alight	S
As I please God have set this Morris burning	O4
We must be serving him like something worshipt	S
But is it to a man we kneel No no	U2
But to our own work to the blaze we kindled	S
O he caught bravely Now there's nothing at all	L4
So rare such a wild adventure of glee	L4
As watching love for you in a man beginning	O4
To see the sight of you pour into his senses	G2
Like brandy gulpt down by a frozen man	U2
A thing that runs scalding about his blood	S
To see him holding himself firm against	S
The sudden strength of wildness beating in him	J3
O what my life is waiting for at last	S
Is started I believe I've turned a man	U2
To a power not to be reckoned I shall be	L4
Held by his love like a light thing in a river	B2
	-
	-
III	-
	-
MORRIS by himself	N3
It is a wonder Here's this poor thing Life	N3
Troubled with labours of the endless war	S2
The lusty flesh keeps up against the spirit	S
And down amid the anger who knows whence	G2
Comes Love and at once the struggling mutiny	L4
Falls quiet unendurably rebuked	S
And the whole strength of life is free to serve	N3
Spirit under the regency of Love	N3
The quiet that is in me The bright peace	G2
Instead of smoke and dust the peace of Love	N3
Truly I knew not what a turmoil life	N3
Has been and how rebellious till this peace	G2
Came shining down And yet I have seen things	G2
And heard things that were strangely meaning this	G2
Telling me strangely that life can be all	L4
One power undisturbed one perfect honour	S2
Waters at noonday sounding among hills	G2
Or moonlight lost among vast curds of cloud	S
But never knew I it is only Love	N3
Can rule the noise of life to heavenly quiet	S
Ah Jean if thou wilt love me thou shalt have	N3
Never from me upon thy purity	L4
The least touch of that eager baseness known	U2
For shame's disguising by the name of Love	N3
Most wickedly thou shalt not need to fear	S2
Aught from my love for surely thou shalt know	U2
It is a love that almost fears to love thee	L4
	-
	-
IV	N3
	-
The Public House MORRIS and JEAN	U2
	-
Jean	U2
O you are come again	U2
	-
Morris	G2
Has he been here	S2
That blackguard with some insolence to you	T
	-
Jean	U2
Who	T
	-
Morris	G2
Why that Hamish	C4
	-
Jean	U2
Hamish No not he	L4
	-
Morris	G2
I thought you seemed so breathless	G2
	-
Jean	U2
But you've come	Z3
Again May I not be glad of your coming	O4
Yes and a little breathless Did you come	Z3
Only because you thought I might be bullied	S
	-
Morris	G2
O no no no Only for you I came	W3
	-
Jean	U2
And that's what I was hoping	O4
	-
Morris	G2
If you could know	U2
How it has been with me since I saw you	T
	-
Jean	U2
	-
What can I know of your mind For my own	U2
Is hard enough to know save that I'm glad	S
You've come again and that I should have cried	S
If you'd not kept your word	S
	-
Morris	G2
My word to see	L4
Hamish does nothing to you	T
	-
Jean	U2
The fiend take Hamish	C4
Do you think I'ld be afraid of him It's you	T
I ought to be afraid of were I wise	G2
	-
Morris	G2
Good God she's crying	O4
	-
Jean	U2
Cannot you understand	S
	-
Morris	G2
O darling is it so I prayed for this	G2
All night and yet it's unbelievable	L4
	-
Jean	U2
You too Morris	G2
	-
Morris	G2
There's nothing living in me	L4
But love for you my sweetheart	S
	-
Jean	U2
And you are mine	U2
My sweetheart And now Morris now you know	U2
Why you are the man that ought to frighten me	L4
Morris I love you so	U2
	-
Morris	G2
O but better than this	G2
Jean you must love me You must never think	O4
I'm like the heartless men you wait on here	S2
Whose love is all a hunger that cares naught	S
How hatefully endured its feasting must be	L4
By her who fills it so it be well glutted	S
	-
Jean	U2
I did not say I was afraid of you	T
But only that perhaps I ought to be	L4
	-
Morris	G2
No no you never ought My love is one	U2
That will not have its passion venturous	G2
It knows itself too fine a ceremony	L4
To risk its whole perfection even by one	U2
Unruly thought of the luxury in love	N3
Nay rather it is the quietness of power	S2
That knows there is no turbulence in life	N3
Dare the least questioning hindrance set against	S
The onward of its going therefore quiet	S
All gentle But strong Jean wondrously strong	O4
	-
Jean	U2
Yes love is strong I have well thought of that	S
It drops as fiercely down on us as if	N3
We were to be its prey I've seen a gull	L4
That hovered with beak pointing and eyes fixt	S
Where underneath its swaying flight some fish	C4
Was trifling fooling in the waves then souse	G2
And the gull has fed And love on us has fed	S
	-
Morris	G2
Indeed 'tis a sudden coming but I grieve	N3
To hear you make of love a cruelty	S
Sweetheart it shall be nothing cruel to you	T
You shall not fear in doing what love bids	G2
Ever to know yourself unmaidenly	L4
For see here's my first kiss and all my love	N3
Is signed in it and it is on your hand	S
Is that a thing to fear But it were best	S
I go now This should be a privacy	S
Not even your lover near this hour of first	S
Strange knowledge that you have accepted love	N3
I think you would feel me prying if I stayed	S
While your heart falters into full perceiving	O4
That you are plighted now forever mine	U2
God bless you Jean my sweetheart Not a word	S
But you will thank me soon for leaving you	T
'Tis the best courtesy I can do	T
He goes	G2
	-
Jean	U2
O and I thought it was my love at last	S
I thought from the look he had last night I'd found	S
That great brave irresistible love But this	G2
It's like a man deformed with half his limbs	G2
Am I never to have the love I dream and need	S
Pouring over me into me winds of fire	S2
	-
HAMISH comes in	U2
	-
Hamish	C4
Well What's the mood to night The girl's been crying	O4
This should be something queer	S2
	-
Jean	U2
It's you are to blame	W3
You brought him here	S2
	-
Hamish	C4
It's Morris this time is it	S
And what has he done	U2
	-
Jean	U2
He's insulted me	S
And you must never let me see him again	U2
	-
Hamish	C4
Sure I don't want him seeing you But still	L4
If I'm to keep you safe from meeting him	J3
	-
Jean	U2
To look in his eyes would mortify my heart	S
	-
Hamish	C4
Then you'ld do right to pay me	S
	-
Jean	U2
What you please	G2
	-
Hamish	C4
A kiss	G2
	-
Jean	U2
Of course as many as you like	O4
And of any sort you like	O4
	-
	-
	-
	-
KATRINA	U2
	-
	-
I	-
	-
On the sea coast Three young men SYLVAN VALENTINE	U2
and FRANCIS	G2
	-
Valentine	U2
Well I suppose you're out of your fear at last	S
Sylvan This land's empty enough naught here	S2
Feminine but the hens bitches and cows	G2
Now we are safe	N3
	-
Francis	G2
Horribly safe for here	S2
If there are wives at all they are salted so	G2
They have no meaning for the blood bent things	G2
Philosophy allows not to be women	U2
	-
Valentine	U2
But think of the husbands that must spend their nights	G2
Alongside skin like bark It is the men	U2
That have the tragedy in these weather'd lands	G2
	-
Francis	G2
No thought of that We are monks now And indeed	S
This is a cloister that a man could like	O4
This blue aired space of grassy land that here	S2
Just as it touches the sea's bitter mood	S
Is troubled into dunes as it were thrilled	S
Like a calm woman trembling against love	N3
	-
Sylvan	U2
Woman again How knowing you I failed	S
So long to know the truth I cannot think	O4
	-
Francis	G2
And what's the truth	P4
	-
Sylvan	U2
Woman and love of her	S2
Is as a dragging ivy on the growth	Q4
Of that strong tree man's nature	S2
	-
Valentine	U2
Yes But now	U2
Tell us a simpler sort of truth Was she	S
	-
Sylvan	U2
She Who	T
	-
Valentine	U2
Katrina of course who else when one	U2
Speaks of a she to you	T
	-
Sylvan	U2
And what about her	S2
	-
Valentine	U2
Was she too cruel to you or too kind	S
	-
Sylvan	U2
Ah there's no hope for men like you you're sunk	O4
Above your consciences in smothering ponds	G2
Of sweet imagination drowned in woman	U2
	-
Francis	G2
Ay Clarence and the Malmesey over again	U2
'Twas a delightful death	P
	-
Valentine	U2
But you forget	S
Sylvan we've come as your disciples here	S2
	-
Sylvan	U2
Yes to a land where not the least desire	S2
Need prey upon your mettle There are hours	G2
A god might gladly take in these basking dunes	G2
Nothing but summer and piping larks and air	S2
All a warm breath of honey and a grass	G2
All flowers sweet thyme and golden heart's ease here	S2
And under scent and song of flowers and birds	G2
Far inland out of the golden bays the air	S2
Is charged with briny savour and whispered news	G2
Gentle as whitening oats the breezes stroke	O4
What good is all this health to you You bring	O4
Your own thoughts with you and they are vinegar	S2
Endlessly rusting what should be clear steel	L4
	-
Francis	G2
I do begin to doubt our enterprise	G2
The grand Escape from Woman It lookt brave	N3
And nobly hazardous afar off to cease	G2
All wenching whether in deed or word or thought	S
And yet I fear pride egged us We had done	U2
Better to be more humble and bring here	S2
A girl apiece	G2
	-
Valentine	U2
Yes Sylvan you must think	O4
The cloister were a thing more comfortable	L4
With your Katrina in it	S
	-
Sylvan	U2
My Katrina	U2
And do you think supposing I would love	N3
I'ld bank in such a crazy safe as that	S
Katrina One of those soft shy spoken maids	G2
Who are only maids through fear Whose life is all	L4
A simpering pretence of modesty	S
If it was love I wanted 'twould not be	S
A dish of sweet stewed pears laced with brandy	S
But I can do without a woman's kisses	G2
	-
Valentine	U2
Can you You know full well in the truth of your heart	S
That there's no man in all the world of men	U2
Whose will woman's beauty cannot divide	S
Easily as a sword cuts jetting water	S2
	-
Sylvan	U2
Have you not heard that even jetting water	S2
May have such spouting force that it becomes	G2
A rod of glittering white iron and swords	G2
Will beat rebounding on its speed in vain	U2
Of such a force I mean to have my will	L4
	-
He sits and stares moodily out to sea His companions whisper each other	S2
	-
Valentine	U2
Here Francis Look you yonder O but this	G2
This is the joke of the world	S
	-
Francis	G2
Hallo a girl	L4
And by the Lord Katrina But why here	S2
	-
Valentine	U2
She's followed him of course she's heard of this	G2
Mad escapade and followed after him	J3
	-
Francis	G2
She has not seen us yet Now what to do	T
	-
Valentine	U2
Quick Where's your handkerchief Truss his wrists and ankles	G2
And pull his coat up over his head and leave him	J3
He won't get free of her again she'll lead	S
His wildness home and keep him tame for ever	S2
Now	U2
	-
They fall on him bind him and blindfold him	J3
	-
Sylvan	U2
What are you doing Whatever are you doing	O4
Hell burn you let me go	G2
	-
Valentine	U2
There's worse to come	Z3
	-
They make off and leave SYLVAN shouting KATRINA runs in	U2
	-
Katrina	U2
Dear Heaven Were they robbers Have they hurt you	T
	-
She releases him He stands up	R
	-
Sylvan	U2
Katrina	U2
	-
Katrina	U2
Sylvan	U2
	-
Sylvan	U2
How did you plot this	G2
I thought I'd put leagues between you and me	S
	-
Katrina	U2
Why have you come here	S2
	-
Sylvan	U2
To find you it seems	G2
But what you're doing here that I'ld like to know	G2
	-
Katrina	U2
I came to see my grandmother she lives	G2
All by herself poor grannam and it's time	R3
She had some help about the house and care	S2
	-
Sylvan	U2
Let's have a better tale You followed me	S
	-
Katrina	U2
Sylvan how dare you make me out so vile	L4
	-
Sylvan	U2
How dare you mean to make this body of mine	U2
A thing with no thought in it but your beauty	S
	-
Katrina	U2
You shall not speak so wickedly You've had	S
The half of my truth only here's the whole	L4
It was from you I fled I hoped to make	O4
My grannam's lonely cottage something safe	N3
From you and what I hated in you	T
	-
Sylvan	U2
Love	N3
Ah so it's all useless	G2
	-
Katrina	U2
I feared to know	G2
You wanted me horribly I feared it	S
And now you've found me out	S
	-
Sylvan	U2
Is this the truth	P4
No help for it then	U2
	-
Katrina	U2
O I'm a liar to you	T
	-
Sylvan	U2
Strange how we grudge to be ruled rather than be	S
Divinely driven to happiness we push back	O4
And fiercely try for wilful misery	S
Dearest forgive me being cruel to you	T
You who are in life like a heavenly dream	R4
In the evil sleep of a sinner	S2
	-
Katrina	U2
No you hate me	S
	-
Sylvan kissing her	S2
Is this like hatred	S
	-
Katrina in his arms	G2
Sylvan I have been	U2
So wrencht and fearfully used It was as if	N3
This being that I live in had become	Z3
A savage endless water wild with purpose	G2
To tire me out and drown me	S
	-
Sylvan	U2
Yes I know	G2
Like swimming against a mighty will that wears	G2
The cruelty the race and scolding spray	S2
Of monstrous passionate water	S2
	-
Katrina	U2
Hold me Sylvan	U2
I'm bruised with my sore wrestling	O4
	-
Sylvan	U2
Ah but now	U2
We are not swimmers in this dangerous life	N3
It cannot beat upon our limbs with surf	N3
Of water clencht against us nor can waves	G2
Now wrangle with our breath Out of it we	S
Are lifted and henceforward now we are	S2
Sailors travelling in a lovely ship	S4
The shining sails of it holding a wind	S
Immortally pleasant and the malicious sea	S
Smoothed by a keel that cannot come to wreck	O4
	-
Katrina	U2
Alas we must not stay together here	S2
Grannam will come upon us	G2
	-
Sylvan	U2
Where is she	S
	-
Katrina	U2
Yonder gathering driftwood for her fire	S2
There is a little bay not far from here	S2
The shingle of it a thronging city of flies	G2
Feeding on the dead weed that mounds the beach	T4
And the sea hoards there its vain avarice	G2
Old flotsam and decaying trash of ships	G2
An arm of reef half locks it in and holds	G2
The bottom of the bay deep strewn with seaweed	S
A barn full of the harvesting of storms	G2
And at full tide the little hampered waves	G2
Lift up the litter so that against the light	S
The yellow kelp and bracken of the sea	S
Held up in ridges of green water show	G2
Like moss in agates And there is no place	G2
In all the coast for wreckage like this bay	S2
There often will my grannam be a sack	O4
Over her shoulders turning up the crust	S
Of sun dried weed to find her winter's warmth	S3
	-
Sylvan	U2
Is that she coming	O4
	-
Katrina	U2
O Sylvan has she seen us	G2
	-
Sylvan	U2
What matter if she has	G2
	-
Katrina	U2
But it would matter	S2
	-
Sylvan	U2
Katrina come with me now We'll go together	S2
Back to my house	G2
	-
Katrina	U2
No no not now I must	S
Carry my grannam's load for her 'tis heavy	S
	-
Sylvan	U2
We must not part again	U2
	-
Katrina	U2
No not for long	O4
For if we do there will be storms again	U2
I know and a fierce reluctance O a mad	S
Tormenting thing will shake me	S
	-
Sylvan	U2
Then come now	U2
	-
Katrina	U2
Not now not now Look how my poor grannam	S
Shuffles under the weight she's old for burdens	G2
I must carry her sack for her	S2
	-
Sylvan	U2
Well to night	S
	-
Katrina	U2
To night O Sylvan dare I	-
	-
Sylvan	U2
Yes you dare	S2
You will be knowing I'm outside in the darkness	G2
And you will come down here and give me yourself	N3
Wholly and forever	S2
	-
Katrina	U2
O not to night	S
	-
Sylvan	U2
I shall be here Katrina waiting for you	T
He goes	G2
	-
The old woman comes in burdened with her sack	O4
	-
Grandmother	S2
Katrina that was a young man with you	T
	-
Katrina	U2
O grannam you've had luck to day but now	U2
It's I must be the porter	S2
	-
Grandmother giving up the sack	O4
Ay you take it	S
It's sore upon my back You should have care	S2
Of these young fellows there's a devil in them	S
Never you talk with a man on the seashore	S2
Or on hill tops or in woods and suchlike places	G2
Especially if he's one you think of marrying	O4
	-
Katrina	U2
Marrying I shall never be married	S
	-
Grandmother	S2
Pooh	T
That's nonsense	G2
	-
Katrina	U2
I should think 'twas horrible	L4
Even to be in love and wanting to give	N3
Yourself to another but to be married too	T
A man holding the very heart of you	T
	-
Grandmother	S2
He never does honey he never does	G2
We're late come along home	S
	-
II	-
	-
In SYLVAN'S house SYLVAN and KATRINA talking to	T
each other and betweenwhiles thinking to themselves	G2
	-
Sylvan	U2
How pleasant and beautiful it is to be	S
At last obedient to love To know	G2
Also I've sold myself is that so pleasant	S
	-
Katrina	U2
I cannot think why such a glorious wealth	U4
As this of love on our hearts should be spent	S
What have we done that all this gain be ours	G2
Nor can I think why my life should be mixt	S
Even its dearest secrecy with another	S2
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Sylvan	U2
Ay there's the marvel If to enter life	N3
Needed some courage 'twere a kind of wages	G2
As they let sacking soldiers take home loot	S
But we are shuffled into life like puppets	G2
Emptied out of a showman's bag and then	U2
Made spenders of the joys current in heaven	U2
Not such a marvel neither if this love	N3
Be but the price I'm paid for my free soul	L4
Who's the old trader that has lent this girl	L4
The glittering cash of pleasure to pay me with	N4
Who is it the world or the devil or God that wants	G2
To buy me from myself	N3
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Katrina	U2
And then how vain	U2
To think we can hold back from being enricht	S
It is not only offered	S
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Sylvan	U2
No 'tis a need	S
As irresistible within our hearts	G2
As body's need of breathing That I should be	S
So avaricious of his gleaming price	G2
	-
Katrina	U2
And the instant force it has upon us when	U2
We think to use love as a privilege	V4
We are like bees that having fed all day	S
On mountain heather go to a tumbling stream	S
To please their little honey heated thirsts	G2
And soon as they have toucht the singing relief	N3
The swiftness of the water seizes them	S
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Sylvan	U2
And onward sprawling and spinning they are carried	S
Down to a drowning pool	L4
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Katrina	U2
O Sylvan drowning	O4
Deeper than drowning Why should it not be	S
Our hearts need wish only what they delight in	U2
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Sylvan	U2
Well altogether gript by the being of love	N3
Yes now the bargain's done and I may wear	S2
Like a cheated savage scarlet dyes and strings	G2
Of beaded glass all the pleasure of love	N3
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Katrina	U2
It is a wonderful tyranny that life	N3
Has no choice but to be delighted love	N3
I know what I must do I am to abase	G2
My heart utterly and have nothing in me	S
That dare take pleasure beyond serving love	N3
Thus only shall I bear it and perhaps	G2
Might I even of my abasement make	O4
A passion fearfully enjoying it	S
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Sylvan	U2
You are full of thoughts sweetheart	S
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Katrina	U2
And so are you	T
A long while since you kist me What have I said	S
O fool so to remind him I shall scarce	G2
Help crying out or shuddering this time	S
Ah no I am again a fool Not thus	G2
I am to do but in my heart to break	O4
All the reluctance it must have on me	S
No pleasure else I am endlessly tortured	S
Then I must kiss you Sylvan	U2
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She kisses him	S
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Sylvan	U2
Ah my darling	O4
God it went through my flesh as thrilling sound	S
Must shake a fiddle when the strings are snatcht	S
Will she make the life in me all a slave	N3
Of my kist body a trembling eager slave	N3
It ran like a terror to my heart the sense	G2
The shivering delight upon my skin	U2
Of her lips touching me My beloved	S
It may be it were wise that we took care	S2
Our pleasant love come never in the risk	O4
Of being too much known	U2
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Katrina	U2
O what a risk	O4
To think of here Love is not common life	N3
But always fresh and sweet Can this grow stale	L4
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She kisses him again	U2
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Sylvan	U2
O never I meant not so Yes always sweet	S
She must not kiss me Ah it leaves my heart	S
Aghast and stopt with pain of the joy of her	S2
And her loved body is like an agony	S
Clinging upon me O she must not kiss me	S
I will not be a thing excruciated	S
To please her passion an anguish of delight	S

Lascelles Abercrombie

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