Loving his loving, was his willing bride.

O’erjoy’d she slept again, o’erjoy’d awoke

At break of morn upon her love to look;

When lo! his empty place lay by her side.

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So all that day she spent in company

Of the soft voices; and Of right, they said,

Art thou our Lady now. Be happily

Thy bridal morrow by thy servants sped.

But she but long’d for night, if that might bring