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   “Come all you pretty fair maids, ¶ I hope you will draw near, ¶ Till I relate those verses few, ¶ That I have wrote down here.”

   

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   My course I chanced to steer,
   Where the black-birds they do whistle,
   And the nightingale doth sing
   It was on a primrose bank I sat down
   For to muse awhile.

   III

   I had not been long sitting there,
   When a fair maid I chanced to spy,
   A lovely maid both tall and straight,
   As she was drawing nigh;
   Her cheeks they were a rosy red
   Her eyes like diamonds bright
   And her skin for colour was as white As the snow that falls by night.

   IV

   Then I boldly stepped up to her,
   And thus to her did say
   The killing glances of your eyes
   Has stolen my heart away.

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   History Edit

   Topics

   1. genre
      1. poetry
         1. folk poetry (~9,504)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Cáitlín Bean Uí Dhochartaigh

   Gender

   Female

   Occupation

   Múinteoir

   Informant

   Hugh Mc Ateer

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   c. 76

   Occupation

   Farmer

   Address

   Drumfad, Co. Donegal