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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=345593" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Tam Lin</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">O I forbid you, maidens a',<br>That wear gowd on your hair,<br>To come or gae by Carterhaugh,<br>For young Tam Lin is there.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">There's nane that gaes by Carterhaugh<br>But they leave him a wad,<br>Either their rings, or green mantles,<br>Or else their maidenhead.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Janet has kilted her green kirtle<br>A little aboon her knee,<br>And she has broded her yellow hair<br>A little aboon her bree,<br>And she's awa to Carterhaugh<br>As fast as she can hie.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When she came to carterhaugh<br>Tam Lin was at the well,<br>And there she fand his steed standing,<br>But away was himsel.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">She had na pu'd a double rose,<br>A rose but only twa,<br>Till upon then started young Tam Lin,<br>Says, Lady, thou's pu nae mae.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Why pu's thou the rose, Janet,<br>And why breaks thou the wand?<br>Or why comes thou to Carterhaugh<br>Withoutten my command?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">"Carterhaugh, it is my own,<br>My daddy gave it me,<br>I'll come and gang by Carterhaugh,<br>And ask nae leave at thee."</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Janet has kilted her green kirtle<br>A little aboon her knee,<br>And she has broded her yellow hair<br>A little aboon her bree,<br>And she is to her father's ha,<br>As fast as she can hie.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Four and twenty ladies fair<br>Were playing at the ba,<br>And out then came the fair Janet,<br>The flower among them a'. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Four and twenty ladies fair<br>Were playing at the chess,<br>And out then came the fair Janet,<br>As green as onie glass. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Out then spake an auld grey knight,<br>Lay oer the castle wa,<br>And says, Alas, fair Janet, for thee,<br>But we'll be blamed a'. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">"Haud your tongue, ye auld fac'd knight,<br>Some ill death may ye die!<br>Father my bairn on whom I will,<br>I'll father none on thee." </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Out then spak her father dear,<br>And he spak meek and mild,<br>"And ever alas, sweet Janet," he says,<br>"I think thou gaest wi child."</div><div style="margin:10px 0">"If that I gae wi child, father,<br>Mysel maun bear the blame,<br>There's neer a laird about your ha,<br>Shall get the bairn's name. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">"If my love were an earthly knight,<br>As he's an elfin grey,<br>I wad na gie my ain true-love<br>For nae lord that ye hae. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">"The steed that my true love rides on<br>Is lighter than the wind,<br>Wi siller he is shod before,<br>Wi burning gowd behind." </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Janet has kilted her green kirtle<br>A little aboon her knee,<br>And she has broded her yellow hair<br>A little aboon her bree,<br>And she's awa to Carterhaugh<br>As fast as she can hie. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">When she came to Carterhaugh,<br>Tam Lin was at the well,<br>And there she fand his steed standing,<br>But away was himsel. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">She had na pu'd a double rose,<br>A rose but only twa,<br>Till up then started young Tam Lin,<br>Says, Lady, thou pu's nae mae. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">"Why pu's thou the rose, Janet,<br>Amang the groves sae green,<br>And a' to kill the bonny babe<br>That we gat us between?" </div><div style="margin:10px 0">"O tell me, tell me, Tam Lin," she says,<br>"For's sake that died on tree,<br>If eer ye was in holy chapel,<br>Or christendom did see?"</div><div style="margin:10px 0">"Roxbrugh he was my grandfather,<br>Took me with him to bide <br>And ance it fell upon a day<br>That wae did me betide. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">"And ance it fell upon a day<br>A cauld day and a snell,<br>When we were frae the hunting come,<br>That frae my horse I fell,<br>The Queen o' Fairies she caught me,<br>In yon green hill do dwell. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">"And pleasant is the fairy land,<br>But, an eerie tale to tell,<br>Ay at the end of seven years,<br>We pay a tiend to hell,<br>I am sae fair and fu o flesh,<br>I'm feard it be mysel. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">"But the night is Halloween, lady,<br>The morn is Hallowday,<br>Then win me, win me, an ye will,<br>For weel I wat ye may. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">"Just at the mirk and midnight hour<br>The fairy folk will ride,<br>And they that wad their true-love win,<br>At Miles Cross they maun bide."</div><div style="margin:10px 0">"But how shall I thee ken, Tam Lin,<br>Or how my true-love know,<br>Amang sa mony unco knights,<br>The like I never saw?" </div><div style="margin:10px 0">"O first let pass the black, lady,<br>And syne let pass the brown,<br>But quickly run to the milk-white steed,<br>Pu ye his rider down.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">"For I'll ride on the milk-white steed,<br>And ay nearest the town,<br>Because I was an earthly knight<br>They gie me that renown. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">"My right hand will be gloved, lady,<br>My left hand will be bare,<br>Cockt up shall my bonnet be,<br>And kaimed down shall my hair,<br>And thae's the takens I gie thee,<br>Nae doubt I will be there. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">"They'll turn me in your arms, lady,<br>Into an esk and adder,<br>But hold me fast, and fear me not,<br>I am your bairn's father. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">"They'll turn me to a bear sae grim,<br>And then a lion bold,<br>But hold me fast, and fear me not,<br>And ye shall love your child. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">"Again they'll turn me in your arms<br>To a red het gand of airn,<br>But hold me fast, and fear me not,<br>I'll do you nae harm. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">"And last they'll turn me in your arms<br>Into the burning gleed,<br>Then throw me into well water,<br>O throw me in with speed. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">"And then I'll be your ain true-love,<br>I'll turn a naked knight,<br>Then cover me wi your green mantle,<br>And hide me out o sight." </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Gloomy, gloomy was the night,<br>And eerie was the way,<br>As fair Jenny in her green mantle<br>To Miles Cross she did gae. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">At the mirk and midnight hour<br>She heard the bridles sing,<br>She was as glad at that<br>As any earthly thing. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">First she let the black pass by,<br>And syne she let the brown,<br>But quickly she ran to the milk-white steed,<br>And pu'd the rider down. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Sae weel she minded what he did say,<br>And young Tam Lin did win,<br>Syne covered him wi her green mantle,<br>As blythe's a bird in spring</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Out then spak the Queen o Fairies,<br>Out of a bush o broom,<br>"Them that has gotten young Tam Lin<br>Has gotten a stately-groom." </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Out then spak the Queen o Fairies,<br>And an angry woman was she,<br>"Shame betide her ill-far'd face,<br>And an ill death may she die,<br>For she's taen awa the bonniest knight<br>In a' my companie. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">"But had I kend, Tam Lin," said she,<br>"What now this night I see,<br>I wad hae taen out thy twa grey een,<br>And put in twa een o tree."</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Anonymous">Anonymous</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=345593" data-title="Tam Lin de Anonymous" data-description="O I forbid you, 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