You'll come up to the Staball, and kneel for me, and pray."
And this to him she promised, and this to him she said,
"I'll still be ever true to thee, be thou alive, or dead!
I'll still be ever true to thee, and O if thou dost fall,
Thy soul at eve will find me here, upon the old Staball."
And then he swore a clinker oath, of what a vengeful doom,
Would him befal, who dared to win her from him, then the bloom
Came to her cheek again, "O Jim I'll never love but you,"
"I'm blowed but I'm the same!" he cried, and then they tore in two!
