With your golden hair all fallen below your knee,

And your face as white as snow-drops on the lea,

And your voice as hollow as the hollow sea?”

“From the other world I come back to you,

My locks are uncurled with dripping, drenching dew.

You know the old, whilst I know the new:

But to-morrow you shall know this too.”

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“Life is gone, then love too is gone,

It was a reed that I leant upon: