Nature
French Folk-song
From Ban and Arriere Ban: A Rally of Fugitive Rhymes
I LAVED my hands
By the water-side,
With willow leaves
My hands I dried.
The nightingale sang
On the bough of a tree,
Sing, sweet nightingale,
It is well with thee.
Thou hast heart’s delight,
I have sad heart’s sorrow,
For a false false maid
That will wed to-morrow.
It is all for a rose
That I gave her not,
And I would that it grew
In the garden plot,
And I would the rose-tree
Were still to set,
That my love Marie
Might love me yet!
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MLA
Lang, Andrew. “French Folk-song.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/lang/142/.
Chicago
Lang, Andrew. “French Folk-song.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/lang/142/.
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