For fear you'd see the hunger and thirst

That kept me like a thrall.

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"'Twas when you went away and left

Me and pain alone,

By fortune's theft I stood bereft

Of all I'd counted on—

And this also, I ne'er could go

On my shepherd life,

Without I had the grace to woo

You my loving wife.

"There was a fate, I do believe,

Call'd us together;

God visit me when'er you grieve

Taking on my tether!

But if we share with every creature

That is quick and dead

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