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A SONG by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE

First Line: I SAW A WEEPING MAIDEN
Last Line: AND YET SHE PASSED HIM BY.
Subject(s): LOVE; MAN-WOMAN RELATIONSHIPS; MALE-FEMALE RELATIONS;
I SAW a weeping maiden
A-searching in the morn
For Love, who tells the rosebud
Too little of the thorn:
She sought him on the hill-top
And o'er the dewy lea;
But he was standing in the shade,
Was waiting there with me.

He sang not in the meadow,
He piped not near the stream,
Nor hid in ferny forest,
This darling of her dream:
He slept not in the poppies,
He stooped not in the rye;
But called to her from out my heart,
And yet she passed him by.



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