But it was sad to me.

"He sang and harped of a maiden fair,

Whose face was like the morn,

Who gave her lover a token there

Beneath the trysting thorn.

"He harped and sang of a damosel

Who swore she would be true:

And then of a heart as false as Hell,

He cursed with curses two.

"And at the first curse, note for note,