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What do I catch upon the night wind husband	A
What is it sounds in this house so eerily	B
It seems to be a woman's voice each little while I hear it	C
And it much troubles me	B
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'Tis but the eaves dripping down upon the plinth slopes	D
Letting fancies worry thee sure 'tis a foolish thing	E
When we were on'y coupled half an hour before the noontide	C
And now it's but evening	E
	-
Yet seems it still a woman's voice outside the castle husband	C
And 'tis cold to night and rain beats and this is a lonely place	F
Didst thou fathom much of womankind in travel or adventure	G
Ere ever thou sawest my face	F
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It may be a tree bride that rubs his arms acrosswise	F
If it is not the eaves drip upon the lower slopes	F
Or the river at the bend where it whirls about the hatches	F
Like a creature that sighs and mopes	F
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Yet it still seems to me like the crying of a woman	H
And it saddens me much that so piteous a sound	C
On this my bridal night when I would get agone from sorrow	I
Should so ghost like wander round	C
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To satisfy thee Love I will strike the flint and steel then	J
And set the rush candle up and undo the door	K
And take the new horn lantern that we bought upon our journey	B
And throw the light over the moor	L
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He struck a light and breeched and booted in the further chamber	G
And lit the new horn lantern and went from her sight	C
And vanished down the turret and she heard him pass the postern	B
And go out into the night	C
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She listened as she lay till she heard his step returning	E
And his voice as he unclothed him 'Twas nothing as I said	C
But the nor' west wind a blowing from the moor ath'art the river	G
And the tree that taps the gurgoyle head	C
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Nay husband you perplex me for if the noise I heard here	M
Awaking me from sleep so were but as you avow	N
The rain fall and the wind and the tree bough and the river	G
Why is it silent now	N
	-
And why is thy hand and thy clasping arm so shaking	E
And thy sleeve and tags of hair so muddy and so wet	C
And why feel I thy heart a thumping every time thou kissest me	B
And thy breath as if hard to get	C
	-
He lay there in silence for a while still quickly breathing	E
Then started up and walked about the room resentfully	B
O woman witch whom I in sooth against my will have wedded	C
Why castedst thou thy spells on me	B
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There was one I loved once the cry you heard was her cry	O
She came to me to night and her plight was passing sore	K
As no woman Yea and it was e'en the cry you heard wife	P
But she will cry no more	K
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And now I can't abide thee this place it hath a curse on't	B
This farmstead once a castle I'll get me straight away	Q
He dressed this time in darkness unspeaking as she listened	C
And went ere the dawn turned day	Q
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They found a woman's body at a spot called Rocky Shallow	B
Where the Froom stream curves amid the moorland washed aground	C
And they searched about for him the yeoman who had darkly known her	G
But he could not be found	C
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And the bride left for good and all the farmstead once a castle	B
And in a county far away lives mourns and sleeps alone	B
And thinks in windy weather that she hears a woman crying	E
And sometimes an infant's moan	B

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