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THE HALF-RING MOON by JOHN BANISTER TABB

First Line: OVER THE SEA, OVER THE SEA
Last Line: HANGS THE HALF OF A RING FOR ME.
Subject(s): LOVE; MOON;
OVER the sea, over the sea,
My love he is gone to a far countrie;
But he brake a golden ring with me
The pledge of his faith to be.

Over the sea, over the sea,
He comes no more from the far countrie;
But at night, where the new moon loved to be,
Hangs the half of a ring for me.



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