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p. 20SIR RIBOLT.

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Ribolt the son of a Count was he— Gulborg he courted in secrecy.

Since she was a child the maid he woo’d, And till she had come to womanhood.

“Gulborg do thou become my bride, In a better land then thou shalt reside.

“Unto the land I thee will bear, Where grief ne’er comes the mind to tear.

“To an island ’neath a blissful sky, Where thou shalt live and never die.”

“To the land thou never me wilt bear, But grief shall come the mind to tear.

p. 21“Nor me to the isle wilt thou convey Where I’ve no death to the Lord to pay.”

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“O there no grass but the leek up-springs, And there no bird but the cuckoo sings.

“No other water flows than wine, Thou may’st believe these words of mine.”

“But how from the Castle can I fly? So many watch incessantly.

“I’m watched by father, watched by mother, By sister I am watched, and brother.

“I’m watched by the man to whom I’m plighted, And I fear him more than the rest united.”

“Although by all thy clan controll’d, Thy promise to me thou yet shall hold.

“In my acton blue I thee will case, And my golden helm on thy head I’ll place.

“I’ll gird thee with my sword of worth, Then none will think that a maid rides forth.

p. 22“Decked with my gilded spurs so free, Thou off may’st ride though thy father see.”

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