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Wilt thou go with me sweet maid |
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Say maiden wilt thou go with me |
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Through the valley depths of shade |
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Of night and dark obscurity |
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Where the path hath lost its way |
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Where the sun forgets the day |
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Where there's nor life nor light to see |
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Sweet maiden wilt thou go with me |
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Say maiden can thy life be led |
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To join the living with the dead |
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Then trace thy footsteps on with me |
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We're wed to one eternity |
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Say maiden wilt thou go with me |
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In this strange death of life to be |
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To live in death and be the same |
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Without this life or home or name |
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At once to be or not to be |
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That was and is not-yet to see |
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Things pass like shadows-and the sky |
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Above, below, around us lie. |
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Where stones will turn to flooding streams |
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Where plains will rise like ocean waves |
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Where life will fade like visioned dreams |
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And mountains darken into caves |
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Say maiden wilt thou go with me |
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Through this sad non-identity |
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Where parents live and are forgot |
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And sisters live and know us not |
