"And though your guilders should keep me free,

Yet I cannot do your will;

Far, far o'er the hills and away I must go,

Sweet sweetheart, then think of me still.

"Far over the hills and away when I came,

Sweet sweetheart, she open'd the door;

She laugh'd not, she spoke not, she welcomed me not:

It seem'd that she knew me no more.

"There's never an apple so white and so red

But the kernels are black at its core;