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Love, Stay Thy Hand
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Love, I languish hard by thine eye
No prizèd gem could thy beauty buy
At the sight of thee, I do sigh
For here at thy mercy I forever lie
Love, stay thy hand! Strike me not, lest I die (hold thy stroke? )
Thine is all my life, my heart, and thine am I
Love, I tremble at thy true grace
Tears swiftly flow, hot upon my face
Let thy lips their rivers embrace
For thy touch will be my heart's last resting place
Love, stay thy hand! Strike me not, lest I die
Thine is all my life, my heart, and thine am I
Gentle love, my poor sword is thine
Let it but stand high and be a sign
My service to thy wishes incline
Mercy, let thy fingers at the hilt entwine
Love, stay thy hand! Strike me not, lest I die
Thine is all my life, my heart, and thine am I
Stay thy hand upon my keen blade
Oh, slay me not, but give me thine aid,
Or for my death give me a dear trade
Surely for thy tender favor was I made
Love, stay thy hand! Strike me not, lest I die
Thine is all my life, my heart, and thine am I
Bring thy potent will here to bear,
As that thy spirit, mortally fair,
Holds mine ever sure in its care,
That in one united will we two may share
Love, stay thy hand! Strike me not, lest I die
Thine is all my life, my heart, and thine am I
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The wolf, he was a hunter fair
A-prowling through the greenwood, o
He found a dandelion there
A-flinging seeds unwisely, o
He took him under his own care!
He saved that dandelion, o,
They were a most devoted pair,
A company so fine and rare,
He saved that dandelion, o!
The dandy took a sudden chill
As winter struck the greenwood, o
The wolf did howl to find him ill
And sought to cure his flower, o,
And searched the hill, and further still!
He found the mountain lilac, o,
Of wisest lore and iron will,
Her power matched by perfect skill,
He found the mountain lilac, o!
"O lilac, I will spare no pain,"
The wolf said in the greenwood, o
"If you will make him bloom again
And save him from the winter, o,
My very self to you I chain!"
The lilac cured his dandy, o,
For she would see no flower slain
By winter and its killing vain,
The lilac cured his dandy, o!
"O wolf," quoth she, in anger grim,
"Betake you from my greenwood, o,
For though I have indulged your whim,
A chain I'll ne'er abide, so go,
And hope I smite nor you nor him!"
They broke the chain together, o,
The lilac full with rage abrim,
The wolf ablaze in battle trim,
They broke the chain together, o!
So from that day the flowers two
And keen wolf in the greenwood, o
Are bound each day by cares anew
But never more a chain, oh no!
The wolf must each his flower woo!
They choose each other freely, o,
Unbound by debt or burden due,
The lilac, wolf and dandy true
They choose each other freely, o!
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Alchemy Dance
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Buckthorn and celandine, allspice and beggartick,
Verbena, white myrtle, wolfsbane and mistletoe
Each in its own place
Keeping us all safe
Bring him the good leaf
Flower and root for alchemy.
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Rion Sanura Houston, Texas
A thing singer, singer of things
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