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I CRAZY JANE AND THE BISHOP	A
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BRING me to the blasted oak	B
That I midnight upon the stroke	B
All find safety in the tomb	C
May call down curses on his head	D
Because of my dear Jack that's dead	D
Coxcomb was the least he said	D
The solid man and the coxcomb	C
Nor was he Bishop when his ban	E
Banished Jack the Journeyman	E
All find safety in the tomb	C
Nor so much as parish priest	F
Yet he an old book in his fist	G
Cried that we lived like beast and beast	F
The solid man and the coxcomb	C
The Bishop has a skin God knows	H
Wrinkled like the foot of a goose	I
All find safety in the tomb	C
Nor can he hide in holy black	J
The heron's hunch upon his back	J
But a birch tree stood my Jack	J
The solid man and the coxcomb	C
Jack had my virginity	K
And bids me to the oak for he	K
all find safety in the tomb	C
Wanders out into the night	L
And there is shelter under it	M
But should that other come I spit	M
The solid man and the coxcomb	C
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II CRAZY JANE REPROVED	M
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I CARE not what the sailors say	N
All those dreadful thunder stones	O
All that storm that blots the day	N
Can but show that Heaven yawns	P
Great Europa played the fool	Q
That changed a lover for a bull	R
Fol de rol fol de rol	S
To round that shell's elaborate whorl	T
Adorning every secret track	J
With the delicate mother of pearl	T
Made the joints of Heaven crack	J
So never hang your heart upon	U
A roaring ranting journeyman	E
Fol de rol fol de rol	S
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III CRAZY JANE ON THE DAY OF JUDGMENT	M
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'LOVE is all	V
Unsatisfied	M
That cannot take the whole	S
Body and soul'	S
And that is what Jane said	M
'Take the sour	W
If you take me	C
I can scoff and lour	X
And scold for an hour '	-
'That's certainly the case ' said he	C
'Naked I lay	S
The grass my bed	M
Naked and hidden away	S
That black day'	M
And that is what Jane said	M
'What can be shown	Y
What true love be	C
All could be known or shown	Y
If Time were but gone '	-
'That's certainly the case ' said he	C
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IV CRAZY JANE AND JACK THE JOURNEYMAN	E
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I KNOW although when looks meet	M
I tremble to the bone	Y
The more I leave the door unlatched	M
The sooner love is gone	Z
For love is but a skein unwound	M
Between the dark and dawn	Z
A lonely ghost the ghost is	A2
That to God shall come	C
I love's skein upon the ground	M
My body in the tomb	C
Shall leap into the light lost	M
In my mother's womb	C
But were I left to lie alone	Y
In an empty bed	M
The skein so bound us ghost to ghost	M
When he turned his head	M
passing on the road that night	M
Mine must walk when dead	M
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V CRAZY JANE ON GOD	M
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THAT lover of a night	M
Came when he would	M
Went in the dawning light	M
Whether I would or no	B2
Men come men go	B2
All things remain in God	M
Banners choke the sky	C2
Men at arms tread	M
Armoured horses neigh	D2
In the narrow pass	E2
All things remain in God	M
Before their eyes a house	F2
That from childhood stood	M
Uninhabited ruinous	G2
Suddenly lit up	A
From door to top	H2
All things remain in God	M
I had wild Jack for a lover	W
Though like a road	M
That men pass over	W
My body makes no moan	Y
But sings on	U
All things remain in God	M
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VI CRAZY JANE TALKS WITH THE BISHOP	A
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I MET the Bishop on the road	M
And much said he and I	C2
'Those breasts are flat and fallen now	I2
Those veins must soon be dry	C2
Live in a heavenly mansion	J2
Not in some foul sty '	-
'Fair and foul are near of kin	K2
And fair needs foul ' I cried	M
'My friends are gone but that's a truth	L2
Nor grave nor bed denied	M
Learned in bodily lowliness	G2
And in the heart's pride	M
'A woman can be proud and stiff	D2
When on love intent	M
But Love has pitched his mansion in	K2
The place of excrement	M
For nothing can be sole or whole	S
That has not been rent '	-
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VII CRAZY JANE GROWN OLD LOOKS AT THE DANCERS	G2
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I FOUND that ivory image there	M2
Dancing with her chosen youth	L2
But when he wound her coal black hair	M2
As though to strangle her no scream	C
Or bodily movement did I dare	M2
Eyes under eyelids did so gleam	C
Love is like the lion's tooth	L2
When She and though some said she played	M
I said that she had danced heart's truth	L2
Drew a knife to strike him dead	M
I could but leave him to his fate	M
For no matter what is said	M
They had all that had their hate	M
Love is like the lion's tooth	L2
Did he die or did she die	C2
Seemed to die or died they both	N2
God be with the times when I	C2
Cared not a thraneen for what chanced	C2
So that I had the limbs to try	C2
Such a dance as there was danced	C2
Love is like the lion's tooth	L2
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VIII GIRL'S SONG	O2
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I WENT out alone	Y
To sing a song or two	P2
My fancy on a man	E
And you know who	P2
Another came in sight	C2
That on a stick relied	C2
To hold himself upright	C2
I sat and cried	C2
And that was all my song	O2
When everything is told	C2
Saw I an old man young	Q2
Or young man old	C2
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IX YOUNG MAN'S SONG	O2
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'SHE will change ' I cried	C2
'Into a withered crone '	-
The heart in my side	C2
That so still had lain	R2
In noble rage replied	C2
And beat upon the bone	Y
'Uplift those eyes and throw	B2
Those glances unafraid	C2
She would as bravely show	B2
Did all the fabric fade	C2
No withered crone I saw	G2
Before the world was made '	-
Abashed by that report	C2
For the heart cannot lie	C2
I knelt in the dirt	C2
And all shall bend the knee	C
To my offended heart	C2
Until it pardon me	C
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X HER ANXIETY	C
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EARTH in beauty dressed	C2
Awaits returning spring	S2
All true love must die	C2
Alter at the best	C2
Into some lesser thing	S2
Prove that I lie	C2
Such body lovers have	D2
Such exacting breath	T2
That they touch or sigh	C2
Every touch they give	D2
Love is nearer death	T2
Prove that I lie	C2
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XI HIS CONFIDENCE	G2
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UNDYING love to buy	C2
I wrote upon	U
The corners of this eye	C2
All wrongs done	J2
What payment were enough	D2
For undying love	D2
I broke my heart in two	P2
So hard I struck	U2
What matter for I know	B2
That out of rock	V2
Out of a desolate source	G2
Love leaps upon its course	G2
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XII LOVE'S LONELINESS	G2
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OLD fathers great grandfathers	G2
Rise as kindred should	C2
If ever lover's loneliness	G2
Came where you stood	C2
Pray that Heaven protect us	G2
That protect your blood	C2
The mountain throws a shadow	B2
Thin is the moon's horn	W2
What did we remember	W
Under the ragged thorn	W2
Dread has followed longing	S2
And our hearts are torn	W2
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XIII HER DREAM	C
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I DREAMED as in my bed I lay	S
All night's fathomless wisdom come	C
That I had shorn my locks away	S
And laid them on Love's lettered tomb	C
But something bore them out of sight	C2
In a great tumult of the air	M2
And after nailed upon the night	C2
Berenice's burning hair	M2
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XIV HIS BARGAIN	J2
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WHO talks of Plato's spindle	S
What set it whirling round	C2
Eternity may dwindle	S
Time is unwound	C2
Dan and Jerry Lout	C2
Change their loves about	C2
However they may take it	C2
Before the thread began	E
I made and may not break it	C2
When the last thread has run	J2
A bargain with that hair	M2
And all the windings there	M2
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XV THREE THINGS	G2
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'O CRUEL Death give three things back '	-
Sang a bone upon the shore	X2
'A child found all a child can lack	J
Whether of pleasure or of rest	C2
Upon the abundance of my breast'	C2
A bone wave whitened and dried in the wind	C2
'Three dear things that women know '	-
Sang a bhone upon the shore	X2
'A man if I but held him so	B2
When my body was alive	D2
Found all the pleasure that life gave'	D2
A bone wave whitened and dried in the wind	C2
'The third thing that I think of yet '	-
Sang a bone upon the shore	X2
'Is that morning when I met	C2
Face to face my rightful man	E
And did after stretch and yawn'	E
A bone wave whitened and dried in the wind	C2
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XVI LULLABY	C2
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BELOVED may your sleep be sound	C2
That have found it where you fed	C2
What were all the world's alarms	G2
To mighty paris when he found	C2
Sleep upon a golden bed	C2
That first dawn in Helen's arms	G2
Sleep beloved such a sleep	Y2
As did that wild Tristram know	E
When the potion's work being done	E
Roe could run or doe could leap	Y2
Under oak and beechen bough	I2
Roe could leap or doe could run	E
Such a sleep and sound as fell	S
Upon Eurotas' grassy bank	Z2
When the holy bird that there	M2
Accomplished his predestined will	S
From the limbs of Leda sank	Z2