"And I heard her name the midnight hour,

And name this holy eve;

And say, 'Come this night to thy lady's bower;

Ask no bold Baron's leave.'

"'He lifts his spear with the bold Buccleuch;

His lady is all alone;

The door she'll undo, to her knight so true,

On the eve of good St. John.'—

"' I cannot come; I must not come;

I dare not come to thee;