Thro weal or woe as may chance to be.”

She mounted on her milk-white steed,

She’s ta’en True Thomas up behind:

And aye, whene’er her bridle rung,

The steed flew swifter than the wind.

O they rade on, and farther on,—

The steed gaed swifter than the wind:

Until they reached a desart wide,

And living land was left behind.