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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=413309" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Mary's Tryst</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Young Mary stole along the vale,<br>To keep her tryst with Ulnor's lord;<br>A warrior clad in coat of mail<br>Stood darkling by the brawling ford.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'O let me pass; O let me pass,<br>Dark falls the night on hill and lea;<br>Flies, flies the bright day swift and fast,<br>From lordly bower and greenwood tree.<br>The small birds twitter as they fly<br>To dewy bough and leaf-hid nest;<br>Dark fold the black clouds on the sky,<br>And maiden terrors throng my breast!'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'And thou shalt pass, thou bonnie maid,<br>If thou wilt only tell to me--<br>Why hiest thou forth in lonesome shade;<br>Where may thy wish'd-for bourne be?'<br>'O let me by, O let me by,<br>My granddam dwells by Ulnor's shore;<br>She strains for me her failing eye--<br>Beside her lowly ivied door.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'I rode by Ulnor's shore at dawn,<br>I saw no ancient dame and cot;<br>I saw but startl'd doe and fawn--<br>Thy bourne thou yet hast told me not.'<br>'O let me pass--my father lies<br>Long-stretch'd in coffin and in shroud,--<br>Where Ulnor's turrets climb the skies,<br>Where Ulnor's battlements are proud!'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'I rode by Ulnor's walls at noon;<br>I heard no bell for passing sprite;<br>And saw no henchman straik'd for tomb;<br>Thou hast not told thy bourne aright.'<br>'O let me pass--a monk doth dwell<br>In lowly hut by Ulnor's shrine;<br>I seek the holy friar's cell,<br>That he may shrive this soul of mine.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'I rode by Ulnor's shrine this day,<br>I saw no hut--no friar's cowl;<br>I heard no holy hermit pray--<br>I heard but hooting of the owl!'<br>'O let me pass--time flies apace--<br>And since thou wilt not let me be;<br>I tryst with chief of Ulnor's race,<br>Beneath the spreading hawthorn tree!'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'I rode beside the bonnie thorn,<br>When this day's sun was sinking low;<br>I saw a damsel like the morn,<br>I saw a knight with hound and bow;<br>The chief was chief of Ulnor's name,<br>The maid was of a high degree;<br>I saw him kiss the lovely dame,<br>I saw him bend the suitor's knee!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'I saw the fond glance of his eye<br>To her red cheek red roses bring;<br>Between them, as my steed flew by,<br>I saw them break a golden ring.'<br>'O wouldst thou know, thou curious knight,<br>Where Mary's bourne to-night will be?<br>Since thou has seen such traitor sight,<br>Beneath the blooming hawthorn tree.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Fair shone the yellow of her locks,<br>Her cheek and bosom's drifted snow;<br>She leap'd adown the sharp grey rocks,<br>She sought the sullen pool below.<br>The knight his iron vizard rais'd,<br>He caught young Mary to his heart;<br>She lifted up her head and gaz'd--<br>She drew her yellow locks apart.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">* * * * *</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The roses touch'd her lovely face;<br>The lilies white did faint and flee;<br>The knight was chief of Ulnor's race,--<br>His only true love still was she!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Isabella+Valancy+Crawford">Isabella Valancy Crawford</a><div class=q>
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To keep her tryst with Ulnor's lord;
A warrior clad in coat of mail
Stood darkling by the brawling ford.

'O let me pass; O let me pass,
Dark falls the night on hill and lea;
Flies, flies the bright day swift and f..."></div>
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