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ii.
OK f have you feen a lilly pale,
When beating rains defcend ?
So droop'd the flow-confuming maid,
Her life was near an end .
By Lucy warn'd, of fktt'ring fvvains
Take heed, ye eafy fair,
Of vengeance due to broken vows,
Ye perjur'd fwains, beware.
III.
Three times, all in the dead of night,.
A bell was heard to ring ;
And fhreeking at her window thriee,
The raven flap'd his wing :
Too well die love-lorn maiden knew
The folemn bodding found,
And thus in dying words befpoke,
The virgins weeping round :
IV.
" I hear a voice you cannot hear,
" Which fays, I muft notftay j
" I fee a hand you cannot fee,
'• Which becko— : me away.
e( By a faK " aoiCrt and broken vows,
" In early youth I die ;
^ Was I to blame, becaufe his bride
'* Was thrice as rich as I ?
*' Ah Colin! give not her thy vows r
*' Vows due to me alone 5
9( Nor thou, fond maid, receive his kifs^.
" Nor think him all thy own.
*' To morrow in the church to wed,
** Impatient both prepare :
f« But know, fond maid, and know falfe man y
* That Lucy will be there.
f* Then-