And thrice repeats, ‘The seed I sow,

My true-love’s scythe the crop shall mow.’

Straight, as her frame fresh horrors freeze,

Her true love with his scythe she sees.

“And next, she seeks the Yew-tree shade,

Where he who died for love is laid;

There binds, upon the verdant sod

By many a moonlight fairy trod,

The Cowslip and the Lily-wreath

She wove her Hawthorn hedge beneath;