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In summer on the headlands	A
The Baltic Sea along	B
Sits Neckan with his harp of gold	C
And sings his plaintive song	B
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Green rolls beneath the headlands	A
Green rolls the Baltic Sea	A
And there below the Neckan's feet	D
His wife and children be	A
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He sings not of the ocean	E
Its shells and roses pale	F
Of earth of earth the Neckan sings	A
He hath no other tale	F
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He sits upon the headlands	A
And sings a mournful stave	G
Of all he saw and felt on earth	H
Far from the green sea wave	G
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Sings how a knight he wander'd	I
By castle field and town	J
But earthly knights have harder hearts	A
Than the Sea Children own	K
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Sings of his earthly bridal	L
Priest knights and ladies gay	M
'And who art thou ' the priest began	N
'Sir Knight who wedd'st to day '	-
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'I am no knight ' he answer'd	I
'From the sea waves I come '	-
The knights drew sword the ladies scream'd	O
The surplic'd priest stood dumb	P
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He sings how from the chapel	L
He vanish'd with his bride	Q
And bore her down to the sea halls	A
Beneath the cold sea tide	Q
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He sings how she sits weeping	R
'Mid shells that round her lie	S
'False Neckan shares my bed ' she weeps	A
'No Christian mate have I '	-
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He sings how through the billows	A
He rose to earth again	T
And sought a priest to sign the cross	A
That Neckan Heaven might gain	U
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He sings how on an evening	R
Beneath the birch trees cool	V
He sate and play d his harp of gold	C
Beside the river pool	V
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Beside the pool sate Neckan	U
Tears fill'd his cold blue eye	S
On his white mule across the bridge	W
A cassock'd priest rode by	S
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'Why sitt'st thou there O Neckan	U
And play'st thy harp of gold	C
Sooner shall this my staff bear leaves	A
Than thou shalt Heaven behold '	-
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But lo the staff it budded	C
It green'd it branch'd it waved	C
'O ruth of God ' the preist cried out	C
'This lost sea creature saved '	-
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The cassock'd priest rode onwards	A
And vanish'd with his mule	V
And Neckan in the twilight grey	M
Wept by the river pool	V
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He wept 'The earth hath kindness	A
The sea the starry poles	A
Earth sea and sky and God above	X
But ah not human souls '	-
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In summer on the headlands	A
The Baltic Sea along	B
Sits Neckan with his harp of gold	C
And sings this plaintive song	B

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