The daughter of a shepherd; he was mortal,

And she that bore me mortal; prick my hand

And it will bleed; a fever shakes me, and

The self-same wind that makes the young lambs shrink,

Makes me a-cold: my fear says I am mortal:

Yet I have heard (my mother told it me)

And now I do believe it, if I keep

My virgin flower uncropped, pure, chaste, and fair,

No goblin, wood-god, fairy, elf, or fiend,

Satyr, or other power that haunts the groves,