my man

They've no room in the town for such idlers as he."

But one bent from his saddle and said, "My man,

Art thou not ashamed to beg charity!

Have other men want to marry me, whom I could not touch, after having known

my man. Known the length and breadth of his beautiful white body,

and the depth of his love, on the high Summer Alp, with the moon above,

May yet be there; and godwit if we can;

Knat, rail, and ruff, too. Howsoe’er, my man

Shall read a piece of Virgil, Tacitus,

While thus I grieved, and kiss’d her glove,

My man brought in her note to say,

Papa had hid her send his love,

Too well the year when first I failed to hear it--

It was drowned by my man groaning out to his

sheep "Ho! Ho!"

That time was brief: once more at inn

And upon road I sought my man

Till once amid a tap-room's din

Shall we for this vain bubble's shadow pay?

Ends love in this, that my man

Can be as happy as I can, if he can

My man comes running, flecked with blood

From yesterday, and falling down