And let us reach the lane!

"There slay me by my mother's door,

And I will pray for thee;

For she shall find her daughter's corse"—

"No, girl, it cannot be.

"This heath thou shalt not cross, for soon

Its earth will hide thy form;

That babbling tongue of thine shall make

A morsel for the worm!"

She leap'd upon the ling-clad heath,