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For all its flowers and trailing bowers	A
Its singing birds and streams	B
This valley's not the blissful spot	C
The paradise it seems	B
I don't forget a man I met	D
Beneath this very tree	E
The cooing of that cushat dove	F
Brings back his face to me	E
The merest lad a sullen sad	G
Unhappy soul with eyes half mad	G
Most sorrowful to see	E
I asked him who he was and what	H
'Twas his affair he answered that	I
And had no more to say	J
'Twas all I'd feared the tale I heard	K
When he at last gave way	J
I've not forgot the look he shot	C
Me through and through with then	L
'What loathly land is this ' he cried	M
And cursed it for a countryside	M
Where devils masque as men	L
I thought at first his brain was burst	N
So senselessly he cried and cursed	N
And spat with rage and hate	O
He writhed to hear the glossy dove	F
In song among the boughs above	F
Beside its gentle mate	O
His fury passed away at last	P
And when his reason came	Q
He told me he was city bred	R
A page about the Court he said	R
And coloured up with shame	Q
It made him wince to own a Prince	S
Of very famous fame	Q
'He looked for one with speed and strength	T
And youth and picked on me at length	T
And ordered me to stand	U
Prepared to leave at break of day	J
With letters naught must long delay	J
For certain cities far away	J
Across this lonely land	U
'He told me all the roads to take	V
And cautioned me to go	W
With ears and eyes and wits awake	V
Alert from top to toe	W
For spies and thieves wore out most shoes	X
Upon the roads that I must use	Y
As he had cause to know	W
'I took my cloak as morning broke	Z
And started down the hill	A2
With Castle bells and Fare ye wells	B2
And bugles sweet and shrill	A2
Sir Woodsman though it's months ago	W
I hear that music still	A2
'What matters now or ever how	C2
I made the journey here	D2
I fed on berries from the bough	C2
Abundant everywhere	E2
Or if it failed that luscious meat	F2
I dug up roots that wild hogs eat	F2
And flourished on the fare	E2
At night I made a grassy bed	R
And went to sleep without a dread	R
And woke without a care	E2
'No matter how I managed now	C2
It all went well enough	G2
Until I saw this spot I vow	C2
No man was better off	H2
'Last night as I came down this vale	I2
In wind and rain full blast	P
I turned about to hear a shout	J2
Ho master whither so fast	P
'A minute more and half a score	K2
Of men were at my side	M
Plain merchants all they said they were	L2
And camping in a thicket near	M2
Remain with us ' they cried	M
' Remain with us our board is spread	R
With cheer the best Ah stay ' they said	R
Why go so proudly by '	N2
And there and then my legs were lead	R
A weary man was I	O2
'They stared with wonder that I walked	P2
These tangled hills and dales and talked	P2
Of better roads at hand	U
Smooth roads without a hill to climb	Q2
A man could walk in half the time	Q2
The finest in the land	U
With more but most of it I lost	R2
Or did not understand	U
' So come ' they cried our tents are tight	S2
Our fires are burning warm and bright	S2
How shall we let you go to night	S2
Without offending heaven	T2
Come leave you shall with morning light	S2
Strong with the strength of seven '	N2
'True men they seemed for me I dreamed	U2
No whit of their design	V2
Their mildness would have clapped a hood	W2
On sharper eyes than mine	V2
Ay me they pressed awhile to rest	X2
Persuaded me to be their guest	X2
And stole the letters from my breast	X2
When I fell down with wine	V2
'It all came crowding on my mind	Y2
With morning when I woke to find	Y2
How blind and blind and utter blind	Y2
And blind again I'd been	Z2
Both tents and men had vanished then	L
Were nowhere to be seen '	N2
'Twas word for word a tale I'd heard	K
Not once or twice before	K2
Since first I made an axe ring out	J2
Upon the timber hereabout	J2
But twenty times and more	K2
For many a year we've harboured here	D2
A nest of thieves and worse	A3
Who watch for these young Castlemen	L
At night among the gorse	A3
It's hard to say if one in ten	L
Gets by with life and purse	A3
I wonder since 'twould serve the Prince	A3
To square accounts with these	A3
And many a score of footpads more	K2
All like as pins or peas	A3
Who ply their trades at other glades	A3
And plunder whom they please	A3
He does not rout the vermin out	J2
And hang them to the trees	A3
But this poor lad for me I knew	L
Scarce what to think or say	A3
I pitied him I pitied too	L
Those cities far away	A3
I asked him would he stay and be	E
A woodman in these woods with me	E
Perhaps he did not hear	D2
Perhaps the dove in song above	F
Beside it mistress dear	M2
Was Castle bells and Fare ye wells	A3
And hornets in his ear	D2
An old grey man in all but years	A3
He pulled his cloak about his ears	A3
And went I know not where	E2

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