"There's a key in Muncaster Castle can break

    That maiden's heart in twain!"

   "Oh never, oh never, thou lying elf,

    That maiden's word is spoken:

   The cup of grace left a traitor's hand,

    Proud Muncaster's '

     Luck

    ' is broken."

   Then scornfully grinned that elfin dwarf,

    And aloud he laughed again:

   "There's a key in thy castle, Sir Knight, can break

    That maiden's heart in twain!"

   The knight he turned him on his steed,

    And he looked over hill and stream;

   But he saw not that elfin dwarf again,

    He had vanished as a dream!

   The knight came back to his castle hall,

    And stabled his good grey steed;

   And he is to his chamber gone,

    With wild and angry speed.

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