Lark Rise to Candleford by Flora Thompson

Author:Flora Thompson
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'Twas a still, calm night and the moon's pale light

Shone over hill and dale

When friends mute with grief stood around the deathbed

Of their loved, lost Lily Lyle.

Heart as pure as forest lily,

Never knowing guile,

Had its home within the bosom Of sweet Lily Lyle.

Several other dying maidens were celebrated in similar words to similar airs. Then there was 'The Old Armchair' and 'The Gipsy's Warning' and a group of cottage songs apparently dating from the beginning of the century, such as:

'Twas a fine clear night and the moon shone bright

When the village clock struck eight

And Mary hastened with delight

Unto the garden gate.

But what was there that made her sad?

The gate was there, but not the lad,

Which caused poor Mary to sigh and say,

'He never shall make a goose of me.'

She traced the garden here and there

And the village clock struck nine,

Which caused poor Wary to sigh and say

'He never shall be mine.'

She traced the garden here and there

And the village clock struck ten,

Young William caught her in his arms,

Never to part again.

Now he'd been to buy the ring that day

And he had been such a long, long way,

So how could Mary so cruel prove

As to banish the lad whom she dearly loved?

So down in a cot by the riverside

William and Mary now reside.

And she's blessed the hour that she did wait

For her absent lover at the garden gate.

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