Full fair they were and fresh of blood;

Little they were when he went away;

Now each is meet for a young man's may.

"O tell me, Goldilocks, my son,

What are the deeds that thou hast done?"

"I have wooed me a wife in the forest wild,

And home I bring the Woodland Child."

"A little deed to do, O son,

So long a while as thou wert gone."

"O mother, yet is the summer here