She combed her hair, and the word she hid.

"Come, love; is the way so long and drear

From Whitewater to Whitewater?"

The sunbeam lay upon the floor;

She combed her hair and spake no more.

He drew her by the lily hand:

"I love thee better than all the land."

He drew her by the shoulders sweet:

"My threshold is but for thy feet."

He drew her by the yellow hair: