Said the maid to the man, “If I thee wed
Out of the world and away,
Bide ’e at home, and find me bread——
Just for a year and a day.”
They hadn’t been wed, the maid and the man,
For a year, for a year and a day,
Before a want in his heart began,
To be out to the world and away.
“Oh, wife, there’s come a call to my blood,
To be out in the world and away,