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As ye came from the Holy Land

15th Century


AS ye came from the holy land
         Of Walsinghame,
Met you not with my true love
         By the way as you came?

How should I know your true love,
         That have met many a one
As I came from the holy land,
         That have come, that have gone?

She is neither white nor brown,
         But as the heavens fair;
There is none hath her form divine
         In the earth or the air.

Such a one did I meet, good sir,
         Such an angelic face,
Who like a nymph, like a queen, did appear
         In her gait, in her grace.

She hath left me here alone
         All alone, as unknown,
Who sometime did me lead with herself,
         And me loved as her own.

What 's the cause that she leaves you alone
         And a new way doth take,
That sometime did love you as her own,
         And her joy did you make?

I have loved her all my youth,
         But now am old, as you see:
Love likes not the falling fruit,
         Nor the withered tree.

Know that Love is a careless child,
         And forgets promise past:
He is blind, he is deaf when he list,
         And in faith never fast.

His desire is a dureless content,
         And a trustless joy;
He is won with a world of despair,
         And is lost with a toy.

Of womenkind such indeed is the love,
         Or the word love abused,
Under which many childish desires
         And conceits are excused.

But true love is a durable fire,
         In the mind ever burning,
Never sick, never dead, never cold,
         From itself never turning.


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